The bottom line is this. The number of servers sold with Linux preinstalled is increasing. The sales of Linux built for multiprocessing is increasing. But, is it increasing enough to become a true competitor in the market. To say that sales are up 57% by revenue is mileading. Especially if revenue previously was crap. I could say my income increased 600% if I got a raise to about 12,000 a month. But there are tons of people who make 12,000 a month. Linux sales don't even scratch the big guys (or guy). If the revenue (and/or # of servers shipped with Linux) continues to increase at a 57% clip, then we will soon be seeing some drama in the market. May the penguins day come, and it's sun shine bright enough to blind the other guy.
Do I see a nitch market here? We have an enterprise Oracle database running on Linux (On an IBM eServer in VM). Very cool setup, and it doesn't break a sweat. It is administrered by two admins and supported by numerous programmers and DBA's. What I am saying is if I weren't a government agency with deep pockets, I might want this kind of setup on an outsourced basis. Hey, looks like kaching kaching to me.
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I am sorry. It is running as a guest OS under VM on an eServer zSeries and it is SuSe. Very intuitive sap.
Is it true that many API's exist for certain Windows services that may never be used (such as the clip book service)?
The bottom line is this. The number of servers sold with Linux preinstalled is increasing. The sales of Linux built for multiprocessing is increasing. But, is it increasing enough to become a true competitor in the market. To say that sales are up 57% by revenue is mileading. Especially if revenue previously was crap. I could say my income increased 600% if I got a raise to about 12,000 a month. But there are tons of people who make 12,000 a month. Linux sales don't even scratch the big guys (or guy). If the revenue (and/or # of servers shipped with Linux) continues to increase at a 57% clip, then we will soon be seeing some drama in the market. May the penguins day come, and it's sun shine bright enough to blind the other guy.
Do I see a nitch market here? We have an enterprise Oracle database running on Linux (On an IBM eServer in VM). Very cool setup, and it doesn't break a sweat. It is administrered by two admins and supported by numerous programmers and DBA's. What I am saying is if I weren't a government agency with deep pockets, I might want this kind of setup on an outsourced basis. Hey, looks like kaching kaching to me.