Bob Jones wrote:
> "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
> news:fse0h2ttig5fakibg7flrtddcvhk09jp2d_at_4ax.com...
>> On 19 Sep 2006 11:08:20 -0700, "Vladimir M. Zakharychev"
>> <vladimir.zakharychev_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Personally, I would go with Solaris - Linux won't be anywhere near in
>>> features, stability and scalability for the next few years even with
>>> all effort put into it, by which time Solaris will move even
>>> further.And there are so many flavours of Linux, supporting them all is
>>> simply impossible even though they may all be based on the same kernel
>>> (and Oracle doesn't, they support but 3 different distributions
>>> afaik...) But Larry strongly supports Linux, at least in interviews, so
>>> who knows...
>> Finally someone who has something sensible to say about Linux, and
>> doesn't subscribe to the Linux hype.
>> Personally I think there are so many flavours, that there is no such
>> thing as 'Linux'.
>>
>
> There are so many flavors of UNIX, does that mean there is no such thing as
> 'UNIX'.
In the context of the statement I would say that it is a reasonable
interpretation. Just as to talk about shell scripting without
specifying Bourne, C, Korn, or bash is reasonably meaningless.
--
Daniel Morgan
University of Washington.
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
Received on Wed Sep 20 2006 - 22:58:06 CDT
