On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:03:23PM -0400, Jesse Erlbaum wrote:
>
> I would think Sun has little motivation to bias the polls in any way --
> except to possibly exaggerate the JSP usage! Also, considering the Sun
> developer site is arguably there to support JSP developers (not Perl
> developers who have better resources), I thought the poll was even more
> telling.
>
> Add to that, that Sun has been the biggest victim of open-source software in
> general! The latest Netcraft web server survey which just came out a few
> days ago has the following to say regarding operating systems in use:
>
> "Linux is the second most commonly used operating system. Linux has
> been consistently gaining share since this survey started, but interestingly
> not significantly to Windows detriment. Operating systems which have lost
> share have been Solaris and other proprietary operating systems, and to a
> small degree BSD."
One should realize that Sun isn't in the business of selling Operating
Systems. I don't think any Unix vendor really is. They sell hardware,
that's where they make their money from.
> Once you open the "Pandora's Box" of Open-Source (by using Perl, for
> instance), dumping Sun in favor of Linux is the next logical step. Sun
> knows this, and is arguably more motivated than Microsoft to minimize Perl.
> (IMHO -- it's just a thought. :-)
Dump Sun in favour of Linux? What exactly do you mean by that? Linux is
an operating system, usually run on Intel or Intellike hardware. Sun is
a hardware producer. I don't understand what you mean.
Also, if you think Sun is against open source software, how do you
explain that products like Perl, gcc, bash, Apache, and Gnome either
come with a default install of Solaris 8, are available as extra package,
or will come with Solaris 9? Perl is *vital* for the Solaris 8 Operating
Environment to run as it's supposed to run. Gnome is sceduled to replace
CDE as the default desktop environment.
Do you have any actualy figures of how many companies replace their
Enterprise Sun machines with different hardware running Linux?
Abigail
