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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> Interestingly, Linux users seesm to love to badmouth Sun.
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. Sorry.. you are way off on this point. HotSwap must be supported first in hardware. And when (unexpensive) hotswap HW becomes popular I bet we'll se a very efficient support for it in Linux.
I'm a Linux user and don't badmouth Sun. Comparing
HP-UX and Solaris, Solaris is *much* more Linux-like
And for the record, I hope SUN/Solaris does well. It is always nice to have choice. And we also have BSD for a choice :-)).
> Linux cannot do what Solaris can do (hot swap almost every
> component of a server for instance)
Please don't mix apples and oranges. If it's a solely OS feature to "hotswap" a CPU how come Solaris-x86 can't do it ?!. Why can't it hotswap a PCI card in a PC?
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