Android Phones and Pads are derived from Linux, biggest seller in both categories. Apple iPhones and iPads are derived from Darwin (BSD), 2nd biggest seller in both categories.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] (Mullen, Patrick) writes: >> We had an IBMer give a presentation a couple weeks back, an update on >> all things z. He mentioned that one of the biggest users of zLinux on >> the planet was ADP, who of course use it for...payroll. > > from a recent IBM discussion on OS2 .... > > A non-enduser friendly operating system would have later been up against > Linux. One of the reason that prevailed against both m'soft and OS2 in > that market was full source being available. A big (early) uptake for > Linux was cluster supercomputer "GRID" market ... that also evolves into > cloud megadatacenters (claim is that over half of all server chips now > ship directly to cloud megadatacenters, likely contributing to IBM > selling off its server business; cloud megadatacenter claim they > assemble their own systems for 1/3rd the price of brand name > systems). Linux was both "free" ... but also there was lots of need for > full source to adapt the execution model to large cluster scaleup (both > GRID supercomputers and cloud megadatacenters). > > recent claim > > 70% of the total number of "real" computers run linux > 10% run msoft > 10% run ios > 5% run Darwin > 5% run other stuff > > also embedded & process control industry, autos with ten or more linux > systems, settop boxes, TVs, alarm systems (homes may have 30 linux > systems) > > -- > virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
