Considering what a gut-wrenching adaptation it must be for companies like Sun to open up their source code, we shouldn't be too harsh on them for taking baby steps. The CEO's probably have nightmares about shareholder lawsuits, etc. when they take these steps. In 10 years everything will be GPL'd. It'll just take a while for people to regard copyleft as normal.
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We must have had really different experiences. I've worked a lot with SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX and Linux at work, and HP-UX is by far the worst of the lot. I'm glad to see HP get on the bandwagon, though. They've been pushing NT in all sorts of inappropriate places, and that's hurt their credibility in the last 2 places I've been. Maybe they'll get out of bed with MS, get rid of HP's CEO Lew Platt before he kills the company, and return to growth and profitability.
Where I work some of the MVS guys put Samba on a mainframe, and it works like a charm. We've been using it for years on production UNIX servers, and now it looks like Samba on MVS will give Windows users a pretty impressive alternative to another flaky NT server...instead they map a drive to Big Iron. Very cool. Tell your MVS/Cobol guys to check it out.
HP is fading pretty fast, they seem to have given up on being a technology company, and CEO Lew Platt seems intent on turning HP into just another Wintel reseller. Solaris is replacing HP-UX servers left and right at the places I've worked. HP could use Linux to reinvigorate itself, but they need to embrace it bigtime. They're so committed to NT workgroup-style solutions, I really am not sure if they can avoid being kicked out of the data center entirely.
My statistics has gotten rusty, but in cases like this, where there's a natural boundary to growth, you get what looks like exponential growth initially, but at some point the *rate* of growth slows (Example: an epidemic can only go so far before growth slows, 'cuz at some point it's killed almost everyone, so there's a dwindling number of people left to infect). This is not a bad thing at all for Linux! What we'll see is continued amazing growth, then at some point it'll simply slow down a tad. I'll have to brush off the stat textbook, but it's something like after you hit 30% coverage the rate of growth starts to ease up just a bit. So Linux will leap to 30 market share quickly, 50% in good order, and then getting to 80% will take quite a bit longer.
Where I could see Compaq doing some good (and having fun doing it) would be to say "we'll build you a Beowulf Linux supercomputing cluster, from start to finish, using our superduper Proliants" and so on.
Samba is great. We use it at the big company where I work so the web people can easily drag and drop new content from their PC's to our web server. Samba just runs like a champ. To anyone who has been putting off using Samba in a Windows environment, take the plunge! It takes configuration, but after that you'll be like the Maytag repairman--nothing to fix for years.
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Considering what a gut-wrenching adaptation it must be for companies like Sun to open up their source code, we shouldn't be too harsh on them for taking baby steps. The CEO's probably have nightmares about shareholder lawsuits, etc. when they take these steps.
In 10 years everything will be GPL'd. It'll just take a while for people to regard copyleft as normal.
We must have had really different experiences. I've worked a lot with SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX and Linux at work, and HP-UX is by far the worst of the lot.
I'm glad to see HP get on the bandwagon, though. They've been pushing NT in all sorts of inappropriate places, and that's hurt their credibility in the last 2 places I've been. Maybe they'll get out of bed with MS, get rid of HP's CEO Lew Platt before he kills the company, and return to growth and profitability.
Where I work some of the MVS guys put Samba on a
mainframe, and it works like a charm. We've been
using it for years on production UNIX servers,
and now it looks like Samba on MVS will give
Windows users a pretty impressive alternative to
another flaky NT server...instead they map a
drive to Big Iron. Very cool. Tell your MVS/Cobol guys to check it out.
HP is fading pretty fast, they seem to have given up on being a technology company, and CEO Lew Platt seems intent on turning HP into just another Wintel reseller. Solaris is replacing HP-UX servers left and right at the places I've worked. HP could use Linux to reinvigorate itself, but they need to embrace it bigtime. They're so committed to NT workgroup-style solutions, I really am not sure if they can avoid being kicked out of the data center entirely.
My statistics has gotten rusty, but in cases like this, where there's a natural boundary to growth, you get what looks like exponential growth initially, but at some point the *rate* of growth slows (Example: an epidemic can only go so far before growth slows, 'cuz at some point it's killed almost everyone, so there's a dwindling number of people left to infect). This is not a bad thing at all for Linux! What we'll see is continued amazing growth, then at some point it'll simply slow down a tad. I'll have to brush off the stat textbook, but it's something like after you hit 30% coverage the rate of growth starts to ease up just a bit. So Linux will leap to 30 market share quickly, 50% in good order, and then getting to 80% will take quite a bit longer.
Where I could see Compaq doing some good (and having fun doing it) would be to say "we'll build you a Beowulf Linux supercomputing cluster, from start to finish, using our superduper Proliants" and so on.
Samba is great. We use it at the big company where I work so the web people can easily drag and drop new content from their PC's to our web server. Samba just runs like a champ. To anyone who has been putting off using Samba in a Windows environment, take the plunge! It takes configuration, but after that you'll be like the Maytag repairman--nothing to fix for years.