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

• Andrey Bronfin <andreyb_at_elrontelesoft.com> on 07/15/02 07:33:33 -0800

> "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 ;-)

Sun doesn't like Linux all that much, they want folks to use Solaris. HP and IBM's *nix are hacks of API calls over older proprietary operating systems and both of them would be happy to dump HP-UX and AIX forever.

Net result: HP and IBM are on the bandwagon, Sun is recitent about horking linux too hard for fear of making Solaris look less than perfect.

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