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Gartner Says Delay Linux Deployment Due to SCO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the way-to-go-sco dept.

Sridhar writes "SCO's legal threats have prompted Gartner Group to recommend that companies delay deployment of critical Linux applications, determine "whether Unix or Windows will provide functions equivalent to those of Linux deployments", and take a "go-slow" approach to Linux in high-value or mission-critical production systems."

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  1. Gartner Group is it even relevant? by figleaf · · Score: 1, Troll

    Does any company pay attention to Gartner Group groups recommendations?

  2. Re:Gee.. what a surprise by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 2, Troll

    How surprising that to you, everyone is a shill for Microsoft, and everything is a ploy by Microsoft. Oh, and people "can't fight Lunix like they could a regular company."

    This isn't 1998, dude.

    --
    "Sufferin' succotash."
  3. Gartner's interests should be well known. by BitGeek · · Score: 1, Troll


    Lets not forget who butters Gartners bread-- Microsoft.

    For years this company has been spreading FUD about microsoft competitors... making up performance and market share numbers.

    When they bashed the mac, you guys said "See, macs are too expensive and their marketshare is only %2"

    Now that they are spreading fud about Linux, you should recognize that all tehy are is a marketing firm in Microsoft's employ.

    "Analysis-- its the new marketing!"

    Don't take them too seriously, and point this out to anyone who does.

    --
    Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/ 1816257
  4. to my knowledge... by itzdandy · · Score: 2, Troll

    AFAIK Linus has stated that most if not all of the code that SCO is B1tchin' about has be rewritten in 2.6 . The offending code was already planned to be replaced as is was a little bit to "old school" unixy and didn't play nice with some of the new scheduling AND the new SMP code is better than the old SMP code that was in question.

    So why not just speed up developement of 2.6 kernels in Distros and just skip this whole issue? I personally think that IBM will win based on my limited legal knowledge and what I have read so IBM should be fine and SCO will fade away.

  5. Re:Evidence? by hdparm · · Score: 0, Troll
    What is this? Modded to 0 yet no reason? No mod passed this, only hosts can mod in this way.

    You don't deserve to be moded as troll, since you are ignorant. 'Underrated/Overrated' moderations appear this way.