Well I think that last remark is a great suggestion. I just don't understand why so many organizations still want to spend 150K on a RISC box for example, running HPUX, when for a considerably smaller % of that they could throw in a Linux box(es). I think a lot of companies have the mentality that 'we can't trust OSS because we need a major-name vendor to blame if things go awry' -- a really gutless, wimpy management mentality. I am just glad some orgs such as Red Hat are giving them a run for their money.
Maybe HP will *get* some vision. HP-UX is good but it ain't Linux and as far as I am concerned it is therefore legacy. Maybe with the removal of Carly Fiorina they will beef up their Linux and OSS support. [At least she personally lived up to her statement about the outsourcing in which she warmly reached out to the community stating 'Americans are no longer guaranteed a job'. LOL] Let's hope the new CEO/team understands better where the industry is going than where it has been. Marc On Apr 7, 2005 11:22 AM, matusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sun, Red Hat Go Head-To-Head > > link: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1774971,00.asp > > I don't really understand why HP/Compaq is still in business, as they > have absolutely NO VISION. But Sun and McNeely will fight til the last > dying breath. Solaris 9 made significant improvements, such as finally > including a version of ssh and augmenting their native patch & > management tools. Solaris 10 is supposed to be building on these > efforts. It is hard to beat the stability of Solaris on Sparc. Linux > on x86 ain't far behind, tho. > > Linux /should/ have 50% of the server market by the end of the year. > (That's not a prediction, it's a suggestion). > > dave m. > > > On Apr 7, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Marc M wrote: > > > THere is a good writeup on both solaris and redhat in the latest eweek > > magazine (I believe). I don't have it with me, but if I am remembering > > the > > right article it is saying something about solaris being a lot more > > mature > > than linux, and solaris 10 is regaining some ground. Interesting > > though that > > sun is shipping a lot of linux boxes according to my OP. I thought > > they got > > out of the Linux business entirely a while back. > > > > Marc > > > > > > On Apr 7, 2005 9:56 AM, Greg Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I wonder what kind of impact Solaris 10 is going to have on the > >> market. > >> Every enterprise data center I've worked in over the past two years > >> still has plenty of UNIX in the forms of AIX and Solaris. I see more > >> Linux when I get to medium businesses (still mostly M$) then I see > >> plenty of Linux on the small business side. > >> > >> Greg > >> > >> On Apr 7, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Marc M wrote: > >> > >>> I understand that Linux is suppossed to be at about 30% of the > >>> overall > >>> server market within the next few years (correct me if I'm wrong on > >>> this). > >>> Looks like HP still has quite a stronghold for organizations that > >>> really > >>> just want to spend a lot of cash. On the other hand it looks like > >>> Linux is > >>> crushing Solaris in the x86 space. > >>> http://h10038.www1.hp.com/content_detail.asp? > >>> contentid=362&agencyid=1&jumpid=ex_R33_go/thinkagain_LOB|FED > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
