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Linux During The .Com Crash
freakboy303 writes "ZDNet has a short article that can be found here , It basically talks about what the last couple of year of gloom and doom mean for the linux world in general. It seems to me it would make it more appealing to .coms to use the free software but..."
"About 65 percent of executives polled by Goldman Sachs said they have no plans to use Linux at their company next year."
Actually this statement is probably true, and I would not blame it on the executives either. The fact of the matter is that companies that have mission critical applications will almost always prefer Sun over Linux because SunOS is much more robust and has matured way beyond where Linux is at today. You know how many bugs there were in Solaris 8? Last time I looked there were less than 20. Can you say that about any Red Hat version?
Another issue with Linux is compatability. I have had my teeth kicked in by Linux several times the past few years. Once with Oracle, and another with Sybase. I installed Oracle 8.1.7 on RH 6.2 with no problems. On 7.2 it was a totally different issue. Because of the basic design of the architecture, I actually had to downgrade binutils and gcc to install a pretty damn recent build of Oracle. Why? I have no idea, but any OS that has dependencies that change with every release has issues. If I were an M$ guy (which I am not - I use RH 7.2) I would not have any issues upgrading the OS. Oracle will work if I run NT4, Win2k, or XP. No modifications are needed on the system. On Sun it is the same. Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, or 9. Oracle will run happily.
One could theoretically say it was Oracle's support for building the application to a dependency like that, but when you think of it, an OS is just a layer between apps and hardware. It should not really even have any features of its own. The OS should be accomodating. Applications drive business, not the OS
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, a lot. It is my main development environment as well as my main desktop. It is just my opinion thatg being zealous or fanatical about anything is not good. Just because some of us really like it and it works for us does not mean that we are more right then those who do not use it. It just means that this is our tool of choice. Different tools are for different tasks.
--Jon
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