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Linux Making Inroads, But Not At Windows' Expense

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-things-differently dept.

zaphod123 writes "According to this article, the stories about Amazon (and others) switching to Linux have been misrepresented. The Linux install has replaced a proprietary Unix system, not a Microsoft Windows product. This is still "A Good Thing" for Linux, but not the downfall of Microsoft that some have foreseen."

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  1. Re:From the thank-you-capt-obvious department.... by nion · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    For a small fraction of the cost, Linux on commodity hardware (Intel) is approching the power of Sun's products. It's inevitable, without some sigificant change.

    I disagree, and it's not because I work at Sun. Commodity hardware is not nearly on a par regarding uptime and reliability as Commercial hardware. People don't buy Sun because it's cheap. People buy Sun because it WORKS. If you think I'm biased, replace Sun with IBM or SGI or Compaq or any other corporate entity that builds server hardware. You don't base your $$$ infrastructure on a $2k LinTel machine.

    Sure, you can build a rather good system with commodity hardware. The PHB's MAY allow the techies to install Linux around the network. But when it comes to making a mission-critical application, they're not going to allow them to run down to PC Joe's, pick up a $2k box, install a $30 OS and believe it will run 24/7 without failure.

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  2. Sun? Nice hardware? Bwahahahaha by nosferatu-man · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Almost totally correct, except for the "nice hardware" bit. Sun kit has been crap for years, and is getting crappier. Underperformant, overpriced garbage. Sure, it's can be more reliable than most x86 stuff (albeit nowhere near as powerful), but that's not saying much when the systems can cost upwards of a half-million dollars, is it?

    Sun is getting their nuts squeezed, by the rampaging horde of micros at the bottom and by IBM at the top. As the farcical mistakes mount (no ECC on the US3 caches? Ha ha ha ha ha!), Sun will hopefully slip into irrelevance. Good riddance!

    Peace,
    (jfb)

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  3. Not Making inroads my ass... by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll have you know I personally ripped out a Microshit network and replaced it with Linux. Of course, I run a pretty ghetto shop, so we have the new rackmounts shipped blank.

    The worst part is that management was behind me all the way.

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