On Sep 7, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Edward Martinez quoted: > Thanks to its strong support of the x86 hardware architecture, "in terms of > overall volume, Linux is just a much higher volume product than Solaris ever > was," says Al Gillen, an IDC analyst.
Volume of licenses tells us nothing about the kind of hardware it's being deployed on. This is a poor metric for analyzing a hardware market share. > IDC data show that worldwide Linux shipments in 2006 were about 2.4 million > in 2006 and nearly 2.7 million in 2007. By contrast, Solaris shipments > totaled 376,000 in 2006 and 371,000 last year. And would this include licenses for Novell'a enterprise desktop offering? > Solaris, Zemlin says, is losing market share because it does not have a good > price performance or value proposition. I'd be curious too see the source because the opinion of two dozen marketing analysts is rarely equivalent to that of a single experienced sysadmin. > Zemlin also disputes Sun's notion that Solaris technology gives it an edge > over Linux. "The only people I hear talk about DTrace [Solaris's technology > for assessing program and OS behaviours] and ZFS [the Zettabyte File System] > as competitive features [are] Sun Microsystems sales representatives. It's > not something I believe is impacting the market in any way," he says." q.v. my last statement. Of course, they're unlikely to share their supporting data if it even exists. I'm sure it's top secret & highly technical (translation: we help gen a shit pile of ad revenue for Intel, DELL, et al). -Gary _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
