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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your friend with cooling issues, power problems and hardware failures didn't get those problems because of running Linux...he got those problems because he bought faulty hardware and didn't do enough homework when designing it.
if he replaced 3 SGIs with 76 Linux boxes, then I assume he was doing some clustering. (yes ?) There are PLENTY of places who not only had no problems doing the same thing, but have seen major gains from going to Linux. at a MUCH larger scale.
btw, the caching dns/dhcp/mail machine I built in 2000 is still running at my old company. on a pentium 233.
if you want to say that Linux isn't ready for the datacenter, then I'd suggest calling Google, Morgan Stanley, and Genentech and asking why they are doing it.