I'm trying to do exactly that and JUST started - http://www.fusionproject.org/. Linux development strategy meets human genome sequencing project to get fusion going soon! Anyone interested in helping?
It would be interesting to know how many X86 systems including blade servers and their derivatives were sold in the same period analyzed in this IDC report without an OS. I speculate that there is a large relative percentage of the aforementioned machines sold that run Linux, FreeBSD or some other open source OS. In addition, there is a growing "appliance" server market, most of which run an open source OS as well despite claims to the contrary. The increase in adoption of open source OSs coupled with a dwindling number of commercially supported Unix OSs from companies like Sun and SGI not to mention those company's efforts to open source their OSs seems certain to have a material impact on the relevancy of these results. To me, results like this are a good example of how complex data analysis can be.
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I'm trying to do exactly that and JUST started - http://www.fusionproject.org/. Linux development strategy meets human genome sequencing project to get fusion going soon! Anyone interested in helping?
It would be interesting to know how many X86 systems including blade servers and their derivatives were sold in the same period analyzed in this IDC report without an OS. I speculate that there is a large relative percentage of the aforementioned machines sold that run Linux, FreeBSD or some other open source OS. In addition, there is a growing "appliance" server market, most of which run an open source OS as well despite claims to the contrary. The increase in adoption of open source OSs coupled with a dwindling number of commercially supported Unix OSs from companies like Sun and SGI not to mention those company's efforts to open source their OSs seems certain to have a material impact on the relevancy of these results. To me, results like this are a good example of how complex data analysis can be.