Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

Colin Smith (colin_at_mellifluous.europe.dg.com) wrote:
:
: I think Linux is going to hurt the big name unixes more and more in the near
: future. They may not be able to compete and to be honest I think they deserve
: everything they get.
:

The big name Unixes only care about selling hardware. The OS comes with the workstation. Only Sun sells their Solaris OS for INtel. But the bottom line is no company is going to save a few pennies going with Linux unless there is another benefit above cost.

Applications? Nope. Solaris Sparc kicks Linux' butt. More stable environment? Solaris Sparc on Sparc is damn stable, and and UltraSparc can do I/O a PC just can't touch. Better development environment? Call me when an IDE like Java Workshop or Visual Workshop C++ show up on Linux. This is professional tools for professionals. And what does Linux have compared to say Solstice on Solaris?

In any case, I see alot of Solaris Sparc servers and workstations with PPRO/Pentium PC's running Solaris x86 and WABI. This way you still got your windows apps when you need them.

: I mean why bother with Sun or Dec if you can do the same job for a fraction
: of the price on a PC running Red Hat or Caldera Linux? SCO is already
: feeling the pinch.
:

If I run Solaris x86 on the same hardware as Linux, how much more expensive is this? Since most companies already have Solaris Sparc in-house, using Solaris x86 would make much more sense than Linux.

Solaris x86 desktop with one years worth of FREE updates (which includes Solaris 2.6) is $275. This includes WABI and CDE (Motif).

http://www.etools.com/gold.html

: Linux is cutting across all the markets. PC, low-med Unix. The big problems
: will start when Oracle & the other major DB vendors start to release the
: Linux versions of their flagship products.
:

Not gonna happen. Because Oracle, Informix, and Sybase are in this game for not only the money, but the contracts. How many Linux people will pay UNIX prices for an RDBMS? Oracle cost thousands of dollars.

When your done buying your raid drives and Oracle and etc. the cost of the OS is meaningless. At that point why run Linux?    Received on Thu May 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT