Dennis Clarke wrote:
Bless Linus, he deserves a pat and a hug for doing this, because this will be
one of the biggest reasons why Solaris will eventually weed out Linux.
Let's just hope Linus doesn't change his mind.
I fail to see how a failure in backward compatibility or binary
compatibility has slowed down Windows. The long term stock chart for
Microsoft is amazing. Consistently upwards with multiple stock splits
along the way and then a slight drop and level off. Stunning really.
I highly doubt that I can install software for Windows for Workgroups
on Windows 2003 or Longhorn ( or what ever it is called ) but I can
run software for Solaris 8 ( and earlier ) on Solaris 10. Is this a
strength ? It certainly is with big iron and long term software
investments. Is it working for a desktop however ? Will Apple care
when it jumps to Intel about backward compatibility ?
Straying OT a bit, but this lack of compatibility has hurt windows,
corporates won't upgrade because their applications may (will?) not work
in newer versions. That's one reason why so many corporate desktops
still run win2k or NT.
If a punter can do an upgrade, knowing his/her applications will still
work, to get a new feature or a fix, it makes the job of support much
easier. It also makes small, incremental releases viable. No one's
upgrading to server 200x at the moment, because they know longhorn is on
its way and it will break backwards compatibility.
Ian
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