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What Will Happen in IT in 2007?

Posted by Zonk on from the exciting-times dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet's Paul Murphy has set out his IT predictions for 2007. Featured among the completely predictable, OpenSolaris overtaking Linux is apparently inevitable within one year. From the article: 'By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognized as larger and more active than the Linux community.' Is 2007 the year of the OpenSolaris desktop? Other 'inevitables' include Microsoft's success with Vista, the continuing phase-out of Itanium, and the Cell processor powering most of the world's super-computers."

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  1. There will be competition for Exchange Server? NO! by LibertineR · · Score: 0, Troll
    The one single app that if bested, would swing things away from Microsoft will have no significant competion in the marketplace. You would have to be some kind of zealot to deny that Exchange 2007 is an ass-kicker.

    And you can restore it!!!!!

    BWWAAAA!

  2. This should be titled... by toadlife · · Score: 1, Troll

    "What Paul Murphy, resident ZDNet Sun Fanboy, hopes will happen in IT 2007"

    --
    I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
  3. Re:OpenSolaris vs. Linux by BrainInAJar · · Score: 0, Troll

    not to mention it's 3 times faster on some workloads, and at least 60% faster on others (mysql), all the while being more reliable and less full of security holes ("hello race condition, nice to meet you")

    Linux is the Windows of UNIX... about time we all just jump off that crap kernel