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.
Sorry for ruining it but I feel the same as you about: depressed! I cannot
proof that I'm right in any case but I've seen to many where people just
acted as I wrote. About the mantra: with the "adoption" of Linux by the
big players it was just a matter of time some managers started thinking
like this. What they don't get is that the adoption at the same time means
creating problems with inter-vendor-linux interoperability as each of them
tends to "improve" it's distro
Thomas
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