[ShadowAce]

Penguin Ping

[ShadowAce]

This may be of interest

[bvw]

"The Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes."

Ummm ... pause for stretching the ol' credulity muscles. A decrease from 17 hours to 11 minutes implies somthing quite a bit more than a switch from some labeled Unix to Linux happend. <EOM>

[eno_]

"Software developers who make their applications Linux-ready risk losing their proprietary products to the public domain, Microsoft warns."

Hahahahahaha hohohohohohoho, oh, I'm dying... I think I ruptured something... ya sure... read the Visual Studio license and tell me what the real source of trouble for developers could be? You gotta have titanium nuts to make a claim like that.

[milestogo]

bump!!

[TheEditor]

17 hours to 11 minutes? Fer crissakes, fire the original programmers!

[The Duke]

From the Sun and Microsoft view, Linux has not proved robust enough to handle computing chores much beyond the edges of corporate networks.

"Pot, meet kettle"

Seriously, I've never heard of robustness being a problem for Linux.

[mrjeff]

I love linux as much as the next guy, but this article did not address its key weakness - its screwed-up desktop. With the KDE/Gnome disaster,the idiosyncratic interfaces cooked up by all the app contributors, and lack of a standard user interface for installing/maintaining hardware, Linux has a huge hurdle to jump to get wide dissemination on the desktop. We all love to hate MSFT, but over the past dozen years they have slowly but surely honed their interface. Linux lacks a benevolent dictator for UI issues who can lay down the law on this stuff and make Linux usable by non-geeks. I have mixed feelings about governments mandating linux (save taxpayers money - good, politically motivated discrimination against microsoft - bad), but I hope that these sorts of developments will push linux further along toward the desktop. I believe that is the only way to really bring competition to MSFT.

[Tom Bombadil]

. ''Plus, it was a fraction of a fraction of the cost of a Microsoft license.''

A fraction of a fraction. I like that. Microsoft acts like the only game in town and tells large corporations what to do and how much to spend. MS has had it's chance to play nice, now it is time for Linux.

Linux has a long, long way to go but there appears to be hope.

[RISU]

Gates bought Seattle DOS for $50,000 then sold it to everyone else in many "incarnations" for Billions.

He had a great chance and blew it with arrogance, predatroy pricing, and attempts to hijack the PC and make it a "dumb terminal" in the MS Network.

It's a short sale.

[GaltMeister]

FUD quote from the article: From the Sun and Microsoft view, Linux has not proved robust enough to handle computing chores much beyond the edges of corporate networks.

I wonder if they have heard of Beowulf - it allows you to cluster as many Linux servers as you want, to share the load and coputational power. You can pick how much power you need/want, and build the Linux nodes and network 'em together. I read an article about this 3 years ago, about a university that used 1 or 2 hundred old 'throwaway' pc's as the nodes, and ended up with one hell of a supercomputer. If one of them goes bad, they roll out a 'crash cart' with a spare PC and some parts on it, and get the node back in the cluster. Pretty cool use of old junker pc's when you think about it.

[Red Jones]

penguin ping!

[Stuck in Arkansas]

[AaronAnderson]

I think Sun is more concerned with hardware sales due to cheap x86 hardware and the new 64 bit processors coming out than losing Solaris marketshare, which is free. Infact, Solaris 9 is very similar to Linux, in the fact that it bundles OS software like SSH, Samba, and the apache web server as well as ofering full linux binary compatibility with lxrun. Sun is also going to release their own flavor of Linux for their cobalt servers and maybe resurrect Solaris on the x86. I don't know if they can bet linux/x86 on price/performance, but it seems they have been focusing on scalability and reliability as well as management capabilities that Linux is behind in now.

[pointsal]

good post, ping the ding in Redman