>> But if the question is put to the marketplace ... which is more
important ... portability or scalability and performance. Those that
vote in dollars are not voting for portability. The day they do ...
the vendors will start caring about it. <<
But they are voting for it. Portability is one of the promises of Open
Source. And just look at how scared of Open Source software the big
guys are becoming. Microsoft's dirty tricks to keep LINUX out of
government computing here and overseas, etc. are a testimonal. A few
weeks ago, CMU published the bug rates for Windows versus LINUX --
about three orders of magnitude in favor of LINUX.
Received on Tue Jan 18 2005 - 20:13:35 CST
