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

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
> 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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