On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, David Cartwright wrote:
"We would be looking at what the Unix world is doing now that Microsoft and Intel are beginning to catch up with IA64 as well as any moves in the market - ie what flavours will survive, and what won't".
Well Linux works OK'ish on IA64, there are some stability problems but you can never be sure if thats related to flakey hardware or non-64bit clean software.
Are Microsoft really catching up? Are Sun and HP losing out to Linux? Will Linux be big on the desktop? Whatever happened to SGI? Should we all forget commercial *nixes, or do the Suns and HPs of this world still have plenty of marketplace alongside those of us with Linux on our laptops?
Catching up with what? I thought that most sales-charts show that Linux/Unix have been increasing market share? I do know that M$ are decreasing their market share on web webservers while *nix is on the increase;-) Solaris, HP-UX and linux are the big three at the moment IMHO.
Most of our Developers desktops are running a version of linux at the moment, and some users are running unix for general admin tasks but most seem to jump to windows the first time they need to open a Word doc.
I'd be very interested in the group's assorted thoughts about the general future for *nix.
Linux is growing up very quickly, there have been many improvements since I first began using a year and half ago, The new version of Solaris has some nice features and HP-UX sucks. Samba is now a viable tool for integrating Unix and M$ on the same network and providing the same access to resources within both operating systems.
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