Posted on 02/04/2007 5:33:27 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
The penguin’s come of age. What began as a battle between proprietary and open source Linux software, started by geeks around the world, isn’t plain tech rhetoric anymore. It’s now a mainstream commercial platform — a technology that enterprises are taking very seriously and looking at as a major cost-effective solution that has scalability and a great future roadmap.
A free software that can be downloaded from the Web, Linux has a source code that’s open and therefore available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely. Proprietary Unix and Windows operating systems aren’t available for such tweaking.
With the movement getting the support of IT biggies such as IBM, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard, which have devoted many of their engineers to work with the open source movement, enterprises are now showing confidence in adopting Linux. It’s no more now about getting your software free — in India the dominating Linux brands are Red Hat and Suse from Novell.
(Excerpt) Read more at infotech.indiatimes.com ...
Have you noticed anything about Vista and Linux drivers? I may be crazy but something seems very similar to me.
Just like OSx and BSD?
I don't know, I just have noticed some compatibiity similarities, I'd like to see someone run some benchmarks obviously they aren;t going to be 100% the same different kernel etc. but surely somehow someone can figure out if they are using a "unified style" driver or something... IF Microsoft is pushing for Linux to get all these drivers I'd say that Linux users need to STFU for a little while. Sheesh,
could you imagine ALL the Vista drivers IF they actually could work on Linux?(well NOT the driver but the binary) ;)
well, I'm gonna go to sleep so that I can be awake for the super bowl. ;) nite..
I like PcLinuxOS and Sabayon also.. but not as much as Vista...
Our two internet machines are both SUSE 10.2 Linux boxes and work fine. The major 'shortcoming' of Linux is a lack of manufacturer support for software and peripherals and even there, open source alternatives are pretty good.
I still use W2K on my image processing computer in order to support Photoshop, but late versions of GIMP aren't at all bad; I suspect if I didn't come all over lazy at the thought, I'd shift over to using it and go off MS completely.
In other markets, like backend servers, database servers etc. Linux is gaining ground. On the desktop there is still the feeling that Linux is not quite there yet, though some have switched and done well.
That MS has 31% of the market means that 69% of the market is using something else. That pretty much supports my view, at least from what I can see. 2/3rds of all Internet servers are not using Windows.
You will see that Microsoft's IIS actually *peaked* in 2002, either February or May 2002, when their market share was higher than 31%. Over the next four years of that chart, you will see that IIS lost market share while Apache gained.
That IIS has, over almost 5 years of marketing, new development, more marketing, and the release of new functionality (new versions of .NET etc) not quite regained even its prior, not-very-strong position, is undeniable.
Phrase it however you want, but using even your own stats they are far behind. Note too that www.google.com and www.mypetdogwallace.com , in Netcraft's stats, each get a vote, in spite of Google serving billions of pages and the other site serving only a few.
EVERY single large web site aside from MS, from eBay to Google to Yahoo, does not use IIS to serve their sites.
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