Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
I'm not talking servers but desktop clients. This means that they
most likely for most of the time end up with big vendors such as
Dell, IBM, Fujitsu Siemens, HP and so on. If you look closer up till
recenty ALL of those business boxes came with the latest Intel
chipset and CPU. 95% still do as it seems no one dares to put AMD in
"business PCs" at a large scale. Working for the infrastructure
department of a german university we also go through this once in a
while. OS hardware support for this latest dies is always given for
Windows as but looking at the UNIX side it gets much harder and Linux
distros and developers to a pretty good job there. Even FreeBSD and
the others are behind so no wonder that the small but very
enthusiastic OpenSolaris community cannot really keep up coding for
new chipsets and on-board devices. Even if they could I doubt such
customers would go for it as Linux is just more hip and decision
makers for sure don't get grilled for picking it. Maybe those people
would even consider OpenSolaris "not ready for business".
Most of this paragraph was building up to a valid point, but the
ending kind of ruined it for me :) You talk about business needs, but
suddenly all that doesn't matter since Linux is hipper anyway. Is that
what decision makers are paid for these days? And I've heard the "you
can't go wrong with IBM" mantra, but it's the first time I hear of
Linux as a safe bet. Not possessing any real data I can't disagree
here, but it sounds a bit depressing.
While I agree this is true today, I believe Solaris will win in the long
run. What it has now, that Linux doesn't have, is a stable ABI. More
commercial software will be ported due to this fact.
It appears in a reasonable amount of time Solaris will have most of the
gnu software running.
Paul
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