I seem to recall another article (quoting IDC figures) which said that NT's market growth was (somewhat perversely) due to its inability to scale. Essentially, NT shops had to put in several single-function NT servers (eg. a print server, a mail server, a web server, etc.) where previously a single Unix server would've been used.
Under that scenario, where's the cost savings? Sure, you paid less per box, but you ended up buying alot more boxes.
Remember, most of your favorite internet stocks are majorly overvalued. Notice that most of the big deals lately are stock-swaps? $4.6Bil in funny-money....
I still remember my thrill the day Linus himself asked me to try a patch for a tty kernel race condition I had uncovered in 1.2.10...
Sure, I didn't get my name in lights in the kernel source itself, but it was sorta neat getting an email out of the blue directly from Linus. (I hadn't emailed him -- he saw my post to linux-kernel, IIRC.)
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I seem to recall another article (quoting IDC figures) which said that NT's market growth was (somewhat perversely) due to its inability to scale. Essentially, NT shops had to put in several single-function NT servers (eg. a print server, a mail server, a web server, etc.) where previously a single Unix server would've been used.
Under that scenario, where's the cost savings? Sure, you paid less per box, but you ended up buying alot more boxes.
Remember, most of your favorite internet stocks are majorly overvalued. Notice that most of the big deals lately are stock-swaps? $4.6Bil in funny-money....
I still remember my thrill the day Linus himself asked me to try a patch for a tty kernel race condition I had uncovered in 1.2.10...
Sure, I didn't get my name in lights in the kernel source itself, but it was sorta neat getting an email out of the blue directly from Linus. (I hadn't emailed him -- he saw my post to linux-kernel, IIRC.)