Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Linux user community growing by “orders of magnitude” is a problem, says Sun…
http://www.cio.in/news/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=3589
“Over the last five or 10 years, orders of magnitude more people in the world know Linux environment than know Solaris. This is a problem,” said Ian Murdock…
Why again is this a problem? (Update: please also see the comments, where Ian points out, “I said it’s a problem for Solaris adoption, not that it’s a problem in itself.”)
It’s great to see Linux growing – a real challenge to Microsoft even – it’s only a problem when you’re hanging onto a legacy platform… not sure I can agree ;-) Just think of where Windows would be had Linux never happened… I doubt anyone would argue that without Linux, Solaris would have posed just as much a threat…
After all this time, Sun still has not figured out how to leverage Linux rather than just try to kill it… what a lost opportunity – not to mention, a disservice to shareholders. At least Marc Hamilton, Sun vice president of marketing for the Solaris group, is able to recognize where the growth is:
Also during the meeting, Hamilton said the company continues to see rapid adoption of Intel servers running Linux.
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August 23rd, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Ian Murdock said:
Michael,
Please reread what I said. I said it’s a problem for Solaris adoption, not that it’s a problem in itself.
-ian
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:43 pm
md said:
It is also implicit in the statement that the growth of Linux is what you consider the problem – not for instance, the growth of Windows being a problem? Windows will grow more volume this year on both server and client than Linux and Solaris combined – I see that as a problem.
Regardless, it’s a fair clarification to make and I’ve updated the post to reflect this.