On 24 Aug 2003 20:45:45 -0400 burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:27, Net Llama! wrote: > > > Sun is between a rock and a hard place right now, as they despise > > M$, yet fear Linux. They're not sure whether they want to fight a > > two fronted war at the moment, so they're riding the fence. >
> Sun views their niche to be a very large share of the mid-high end > Enterprise market. This is not an area where Linux has been a strong > threat. Underline "has not been." This is now changing due to the IBM effort. Any company large enough to consider IBM Z series mainframes is going to think twice about the headaches of running a traditional server farm of unix or linux boxes. The simplicities of scaling up processing power as needed and the ability to run thousands of server images on a Z series with not much more effort than a handful is going to eat Sun's lunch in its traditional, profitable mid-high-end niche -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
