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Dell CIO Says "Unix is Dead"

Posted by timothy on from the too-few-necks-to-choke dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I thought this might spur some good discussion on this board, including jabs at Dell and MS, which I always enjoy reading. Dell's CIO believes that the end of Unix is here, in fact his opening slide in a recent presentation was "Unix is dead." Specifically, he talked about the savings he claims in moving Dell's Oracle databases from Solaris to Red Hat.

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  1. Re:OH PHEW!! by SN74S181 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, it's safe to say that the 'Unix' in OS X is just held captive, a slave to the shiny colorful closed source that Apple threw on top of it. Sure, geeks can go down into the cellar to visit it, and it even does a lot of real work down there, but an OS X machine is no more a Unix box than an NT machine running Interix.

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  3. Re:since 1980.... by letxa2000 · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    You might be right--Linux might be eating into commercial Unix faster than the Win32, but that might be just as scary to Microsoft. Once large organizations (generally the ones that have paid for commercial Unix implementations) find their mission-critical Unix applications are working fine under Linux it's not going to take much of a leap for them to conclude, "Heck, if we can save on the commercial server side, what about all those Windows boxes we have out there? How much can we save there?" Switching commercial Unix to Linux is the "Ready.... Set..." and switching the Windows PCs to Linux will be the "Go!"

    I just finished switching my personal workstation from Windows XP (came preinstalled on my new laptop 6 months ago) to Linux. I'm loving life and it wasn't nearly as painful as I expected. It won't be long before IT departments that have had a successful server migration to Linux start thinking about doing the same on the desktop. It would be extremely easy and save big bucks--especially if there are any kind of hardware standard across the organization where a single configuration could be dumped onto each machine--perhaps for the price of a new hard drive for each machine with the new Linux distro pre-installed. Plug and play and no more licesning fees!