Linked by Stefanos "Titanas" Kofopoulos on Tue 17th Dec 2002 06:32 UTC
Hundreds of debates, countless flames, innumerable passionate supporters, no limits, no ending lines, no result. The conflicts keep on going and going and going. It doesn't matter if it's Cisco's IOS, Microsoft's Windows, Suse's Linux or FreeBSD. People struggle to prove their
platform's superiority ignoring that an Operating System is just a tool focusing on specific needs.
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As the reviewer said, it's not that much the OS,but the apps that use it, right? That means (I'm trying to be brief) that the market is moving to areas where services and applications are provided insted of "stuff that comes along with the OS). This will mean that OSs will be used as much as a part of a problem's solution. When this happens markets tend to use very few products and ignore others. The same thing goes with processors (Intel based Architectures), it doesn't matter. What I'm trying to say is that in the (near) future there isn't space for many OSs. Very few will prevail, so the fight matters. As said in 80's there was PCs, Apple, Amiga, Atari ST etc. PC prevailed, Mac also survived. Now in PC (Intel-Amd) we have Win, Lin, *BSD etc. In few years few will prevail and the devbait will be on something else.