Microsoft Windows will not suffer irreparable damage on the server side at the hands of the Linux operating system over the next five years, Gartner analyst George Weiss told attendees at the Gartner Open Source Summit. In fact, in terms of worldwide server operating system revenue, Linux would come in below both Windows and Unix by 2011 in spite of its enormous growth, he told attendees in a session entitled "Enterprise Linux: Has it Arrived?"
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I liked Nexenta, which is the closest I'd ever come to Solaris. But its missing a feature I demand: Accelerated drivers.
I hear the Nvidia drivers are better on Solaris than FreeBSD. Unlike FreeBSD, SLI is supported and 64 bit drivers are available. However FreeBSD has better ATI support with DRI and Linux has the proprietary driver.
Maybe I'll go with a Nvidia card in my next system.
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Nope - cannot second that. In traditional companies you see that Solaris is being replaced by Linux. This is a decision that was taken some time ago. The companies won't suddenly change their minds just because of OpenSolaris.
SUN has quite a few technical gadgets. Some of those are really, really good. Take zfs, e.g. However, Linux e.g. has other mechanisms that might take a bit longer but that produce the same result (lvm, xfs, e.g.).
If you ask me: SUN has - over the past few years - taken many steps in many directions. OSS is just one direction. And that's simply not enough to convince people. So it's about technology, but it's more about reliability.
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2006-01-06
It's been enterprise-ready for a long time, it's pretty darned bulletproof, supports hot-swapping and quite a few technical innovations, and it's going to continue to grow its market share now that Sun announced its intention to open source OpenSolaris. Still, this isn't bad news for Linux advocates: Linux is still growing its install base significantly. And, if MS stumbles with its server products as it did with Vista, then Linux and the traditional UNIX brands could steal some market share from Microsoft.