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Re: [TCLUG:2581] Interesting Linux articles



The only UNIX vendor I can see getting hurt by Linux is SCO.  I work on 300
SCO servers right now and every day I wish they were Linux, mostly because
I hate the support I get from SCO.

Jon



At 09:19 AM 12/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 11:50:44AM -0600, Christopher Palmer wrote:
>> [snip Linux vs. Sun articles]
>> 
>> I've been hearing about this for a while. Even before Linux came around,
>> the commercial Unix vendors were just cannibalizing each other for that
>> puny bit of marketshare they collectively have. With free software kernels
>> on the scene, there's just no reason to ever buy/use the commercial stuff
>> (although Solaris is said to be the most stable of OSs). Maybe this will
>> cause Sun and other commercial vendors to release their source, or at
>> least open up Java (which would be great).
>
>There are still plenty of reasons for larger corporations to use
>Solaris instead of Linux.  Solaris can run on 64 processor machines
>for example, and Linux doesn't even come close to that.  Soon that
>number will be 1024 processors.  Oracle also runs very well on the
>Solaris/SPARC platform, much better than on Linux.
>
>Another thing to consider is corporations buy from Sun because 
>it has extremely good hardware support.  No one using Solaris on 
>high-end SPARC hardware is going to get too anxious to switch to
>Linux on x86 anytime soon.
>
>Of course, Linux is the best platform for workstations and low cost
>servers.
>
>--
>Shawn T. Amundson               
>amundson@gimp.org               http://www.gimp.org/~amundson
>
>"The assumption that the universe looks the same in every
> direction is clearly not true in reality." - Stephen Hawking
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