Sunw appologists need to look forward [LWN.net]

Sunw appologists need to look forward

Posted Sep 21, 2003 17:10 UTC (Sun) by walterbyrd (guest, #11620)
Parent article: Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

64-bit processors from intel, amd, and motorola, just came out about one year ago. Many of the enterprise capabilities for Linux, like RCU, JFS, and NUMA, just came out about one year ago.

Sunw advocates *immedately* assume that if solaris is ahead of Linux *today* then solaris will always be ahead of Linux. Truth is, development and acceptance, is moving *much* faster for linux than solaris. Think about where linux will be two years from now.

Small wonder sunw is scared to death of linux. Linux solutions are much cheaper. Also, the super-high-end stuff isn't needed by most companies.

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Sunw appologists need to look forward

Posted Sep 22, 2003 18:10 UTC (Mon) by fx (guest, #12077) [Link]

During the late nineties Linus Torvalds claimed Linux would have a serious piece of the desktop market within a few years. That just didn't happen.
I've worked for a lot of companies who actually do need that "super-high-end" stuff. I'm afraid the Linux community is in denial there.