On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus at gmail.com>wrote:
> 2009/1/18 David Tremblay <david at ngowiki.net>: > > The situation in commercial Linux Market is easy to boil down : > > > > a) the first to enter the market and the first contributor to open source > > project starting with the kernel, gnome and such > The same thing goes for OpenSolaris. Sun entered the FOSS world too late. Yup but they have VERY good features namely in ZFS and dtrace, although I've heard that Red Hat wants to implement feature such as dtrace in Fedora Will it be enough to see mission critical system installed on top of opensolaris ? > > >: Red Hat. Anyone who does > > something serious with linux usually go with Red Hat. They have a > community > > project called Fedora that has some interesting features (online desktop, > > virtualization, clusterization). Almost all Red Project are free and open > > source. They also have a desktop but who actually have seen it ? > I agree. At least in US and Japan, as far as I can tell, In the business > world, > Redhat( RHEL) is the de-facto distribution. Other distributions have a > little > market shares and low attention. Gentoo and Debian are considered toy > projects Sadly (since I personally prefer debian style over anything) you probably have more mission critical system deployed with centOS than Debian... > > > > b) Novell Suse is the other one who use to be the contender but Novell is > > hardly an OSS company they have tons of proprietary applications. They > just > > happened to buy Suse and enter the Linux market with it. They also had > to > > get help from Microsoft so you can also buy Linux Novell from Microsoft > if > > you want. . They have a community project called OpenSuse, it's good and > > have also an interesting control panel called YAST. > I just want to repeat: They are too late.
