Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th May 2003 23:36 UTC
Linux only has a small percentage of the computing market, however Microsoft already considers it a major competition as the open source OS steals the hearts of many users. Following the hard numbers though, Microsoft also increases its market share on both server and desktop space with time. The only logical explanation is that Linux steals quite a market share from the traditional UNIX providers (SCO, Sun, SGI, HP, IBM). But only Sun seems to truly be in a real Linux trouble, as it is the one with a resistance to Linux integration to its full product range.
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I really hope so, MS server 2003 is a good heavy work and cluster computing operating system. The current Linux kernel can't really hill itself like the 2003 server from MS. Not to mention MS server network balancing technology, it's really paying off and will be looked for in future heavy computing solutions, I'm not talking about intranet/web servers but about scientific computing.
If you are talking about scientific clustering Linux is the only game in town. For a small to moderately large clusters Beowulf is the standard in scientific computing and is now dominating bioinformatics as well as physical science and engineering applications. For where SMP is required the latest SGI Linux machines using NUMA technology seem to be a very powerfull tool for non- cluster scientific computing. Then as for the most powerfull scientific computer in the world planned for manufacture - it is a Linux machine from IBM.
Windows is just not a player for scientific computing except for the most trivial applications.
I'll admit we chemists (not on my home machine) tend to to use Windows a lot but when it it comes to serious quantum chemistry Linux or a proprietary UNIX is most commonly used.
AS for most physicists and mathematicians they won't even have Windows on their desktops - nor even a word processor for that matter as they write their papers in LaTeX on Linux or Unix workstations.