Apple and Windows Will Force Linux Underground

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @01:25AM from the still-neat-on-the-server-right dept.

eastbayted writes "Tom Yager at InfoWorld predicts: 'At the end of the decade, we'll find that Apple UNIX has overtaken commercial Linux as the second most popular general client and server computing platform behind Windows.' That's not a gloom-and-doom omen for the ever-popular Linux kernel, though, he stresses. While Apple and Microsoft will grapple for dominance of client and server spaces, Linux will be 'the de facto choice for embedded solutions.' And by 'embedded,' Yager means 'specialized.' With a push of a button and a flip of switch, he predicts, you'll be able to create a configured database and a mated J2EE server — all thanks to Linux."

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Re:Not really by tritonman · 2006-08-30 02:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Funny, for the most part, it does seem like more of a kid's O/S or a wanna-be hacker's O/S (There are exceptions of course, so no need to flame me). I don't see that any serious organizations are going to be switching from HP-UX or AIX to a version of unix made by Apple any more than they would be likely to switch to Linux. I think that our admins here would laugh if we said we wanted to switch all of our AIX servers over to OSX, I don't think I would be able to make that suggestion with a straight face either.