Am 11.08.2010 06:24, schrieb Paul Gress:
On 08/10/10 11:45 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Isn't this all what I've said right along? It's the only thing that makes
sense:
#1 Solaris is extremely out of date w.r.t. opensolaris. Oracle needs to
release a commercially viable updated solaris while they still have an
edge
over BTRFS and Ontap. And other commercial OSes such as OSX that have not
yet embraced ZFS.
#2 Oracle sells servers, not laptops. They'll include a GUI, but it has
always been, and will continue to be, a pretty basic gnome. Nothing
flashy
like aero or compiz or aqua. They are designing it to be servers. If you
want a flashy laptop, use OSX, Windows, or Ubuntu.
Well I bought into Sun on their Workstation line. I don't need Servers.
My MCAD program runs on Solaris and Windows only. I should switch to
Windows?
Yes. There simply is no market for desktop unix (not counting OSX).
Linux is too fragmented, others have even less market share on the
desktop. Produktivity applications will continue to move to windows/OSX,
I don't see any signs this trend will change (autodesk is switching to
DirectX). Unix vendors killed their own market with overpriced,
proprietary offerings.
cheers
Paul
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