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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man...I can see the Linux developers cringing right now! How hard does the 13 year old in Norway have to work for Linux to get credit for being a datacenter OS? "I'm sorry Mr./Mrs. director...I'm waiting on someone in the open source community to answer my posting to our mission critical problem. As soon as they answer I'll be able to get that server back online".....the only thing that kind of answer would get me is fired!
Say what you want to about binary compatibility..but when I can run ANY Solaris OS on a hardware that is 6 or 7 years old it gets some attention. I find it interesting when our windows department has problems running Oracle on certain HW...."I'm sorry department, if you want to run that version of Oracle you have to buy a new server type..not install a new OS..." whatever. I have a friend that just replaced 3 large SGI servers with 76 Linux server. Now they have power problems, cooling problems and space problems, not to mention they replace about 2 or 3 servers a week due to hardware failures.
Say what you will.....but that Sun server that was up for 1099 days (retired it last week) was a good example. It did it's job, it just ran, doing it's job. You want something to do..something to play with, install Linux and upgrade it every week. If you want a solid OS for your datacenter..install Solaris - it's proven and it's hardened.
Linux should be replacing Microsoft - not other UNIX's. My 2 cents - they don't mean anything...just my 2 cents.
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