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Aberdeen Group Announces Top Predictions for 2003 IT Trends
The Aberdeen Group has
announced its top predictions for 2003. Among other predictions, they
see a bright future for Enterprise Linux.
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Aberdeen Group Announces Top Predictions for 2003 IT Trends Posted Jan 2, 2003 20:33 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] Not too bad a report overall, but aberdeen claims linux has yet to perform well on 4-way servers and up -Are they unaware that Linux holds the 4-way specweb99 speed title? Linux 4-way performance beats many vendors 8-way specweb99 performance, for crying out loud - so, the 4-way performance of Linux is rather decent, despite aberdeen's comments; 4-way is actually the sweet spot right now, 8-way is fair-to-middling, but 8 and 16-way scalability are being actively worked on.
Aberdeen Group Announces Top Predictions for 2003 IT Trends Posted Jan 2, 2003 23:05 UTC (Thu) by stumbles (guest, #8796) [Link] Phhhht ..... Aberdeen, what a bunch of knuckleheads.
Aberdeen Group Announces Top Predictions for 2003 IT Trends Posted Jan 3, 2003 0:55 UTC (Fri) by mark (guest, #1921) [Link] My reading of the article is that Linux doesn't perform well in the 4-way *market*, not that 4-way linux doesn't perform well. In other words it might go great, but noone's buying it yet.
Aberdeen Group Announces Top Predictions for 2003 IT Trends Posted Jan 3, 2003 22:31 UTC (Fri) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link] My reading of the article is that Linux doesn't perform well in the 4-way *market*, not that 4-way linux doesn't perform well. I agree. Notice their wording: "the Linux/Intel platform" hasn't proven itself in the 4-way market yet. In my opinion this is at least as much the fault of the hardware as of the software - the P3 and P4 busses aren't really meant to scale all that far. Sure, we've had Sequent, NCR and Unisys doing custom MP busses based on Intel chips, but that (being custom) is more expensive. Perhaps the K8 will finally bring affordable 4-way / 8-way to the masses. Of course, AMD still has to convince the world they should be taken seriously in the business market..
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