Re: OT - unix vs linux vs windows - the future

But do all these matter though? Everyone's moving to MS software and *nixes are getting rarer and rarer. The fact is that everyone's losing money (Sun, IBM, HP, SGI even RedHat and Caldera) - except MS. It's an MS world like it or not.

ltiu

On Monday 15 July 2002 08:33, Andrey Bronfin wrote:
> "Good bet that smaller Unix vendors will run to Linux before vendors like
> Sun do."
> Not exactly , just look at homepages of sun , ibm , oracle .
> There are more appearences of the word "linux" there than any word in
> Britannica ;-)
>
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> DBAndrey
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> Jared - Good point. In addition, other costs to an independent Unix vendor
> are:
> - Staff costs of a large development staff. This cost doesn't vary,
> regardless of the number of customers. Therefore, vendors with a small
> market share have proportionally higher costs.
> - Costs of attracting software vendors. If the Unix version has a large
> market share, application software vendors (like Oracle) will gladly port
> their product to your O.S. However, if your market share is low, vendors
> are reluctant to support your O.S. Then you are trapped in the
> chicken-and-egg syndrome (similar to "nobody will give me a job because I
> don't have experience, but how can I get experience without a job"). Good
> bet that smaller Unix vendors will run to Linux before vendors like Sun do.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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> I'm sure that many vendors welcome an opportunity
> to stop paying royalties to AT&T for unix code. I believe
> that all mainstream vendor implementations of unix have
> AT&T base.
>
> Jared
>
> On Sunday 14 July 2002 11:58, Andrey Bronfin wrote:
> > hi !
> > i might start another war , but i can't resist a part of me which wants
> > to ask :
> > what do you , seasoned gurus, think of everybody's (as it seems to be)
> > plans to abandon the "classic" unix for linux ?
> > In particular , most database vendors (as well as other enterprise
>
> software
>
> > vendors) name linux as the future #1 platform for their DBs (especially
> > given the fact that a DB cluster is not rare any more).
> > It also looks like many development shops shift their efforts to develop
>
> on
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> > windows (or , in some rare cases, linux ) instead of unix .
> > What do you think about this ?
> >
> >
> > DBAndrey
> >
> > * 03-9254520
> > * 058-548133
> > * mailto:andreyb_at_elrontelesoft.com

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