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Apple and Windows Will Force Linux Underground
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."
No, it's just not in the general public's immediate consciousness. Kinda like Windows and MacOS aren't either. Worrying about that stuff is "for computer geeks".
Ask a bloke on the street if they've heard of Linux.
Lousy benchmark there. The general "bloke on the street" isn't the one who does the investing in IT hardware. We're not talking about "OMFGBBQ the desktop is so HAWT I want to have it's children!" bullcrap. We're talking about server-side infrastructure. Essentially, the only ones REALLY using Mac for this are the hardcore Mac-freaks who're still drinking the Flavor-Aid in the RDF. Why is this? The same reason they're moving off Windows Server onto Linux. Price/performance ratio.
If they're not in IT, web design, or a related field chances are they have not.
Again, they're also not the ones making the decisions for a company's infrastructure either.
Ask a bloke on the street if they've heard of windows, or apple. Even if they don't own a computer, they probably have.
BFD. How many people outside of enterprise IT have heard of Oracle database? Or Roxxon? Or BIND? Luddite public consciouness is a piss-poor way to limit your purchases.
Linux has made great strides in the past 10 years, but let's not confuse what it is. Linux is the survivalist to windows' soccer mom.
BWAHAHAH! You obviously are a web-wonk who thinks that because you can write HTML and rip off an occasional javascript from someone else, that it makes you "real IT".
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The whole premise was an abuse of statistics: lumping together the "relative" success of MacOS as a consumer platform, tying in the fact that it just happens to have a server variant now and linking that to the fact that it has a Unix core underneath all of those proprietary API's it has.
MacOS still remains a consumer OS for people unwilling or unable to understand the guts of a microcomputer.
It is not a "server OS".
In a few years, it might gain traction as that after it's sheds it's 20 year old desktop-for-nubes image.
In the meantime, the world is safe for AIX, Solaris and Linux.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
How can you not bring religion into it? It's at the cultural root of this particular issue.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana, you fly like a rock.
And you must think you're a BOFH.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"