Aunty Diluvian wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:51:23 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Unix vendors get creative in face of Windows, Linux competition
>>
>
> Bringing Linux to the Enterprise is like
> bringing a sack lunch to fine restaurant.
>
> You want to be with the upper-crust but haven't
> the resources to even buy a glass of water.
> In the meantime your mouth is watering while
> you look around at what everyone is having.
>
> Maybe if you wash dishes the waiter will
> give you some leftover bread with you water.
Linux is already in the enterprise, anywhere a UNIX can go a Linux can go,
given an equally powerfull machine.
Quite frankly Linux has the server market sown up, who would pay for the
bloat-n-dross of NT when you can have a rock solid low maintenance
server/cluster that you don't need to worry about. The only thing left that
can slow the move from the high end servers is some of the high end
databases. Oracle can take care of much of that, as of cause Unidata can
since Unidata was available for Linux quite some time ago.
Still, such big, long term, databases usually build up a mass of code and
modules and however well documented the whole thing is a move to any
platform is costly and carries some risk. So those in charge will only move
when necessary and will target a system that they can depend on at least as
well as the current system. For that I would much rather recompile that
code for a UNIX-Like system than have it rewritten for another OS, because
for a start I have control of the libs, I can even have multiple lib bins
if I want to be certain. Then the compilers/linkers are much as I had on
the UNIX platform.
Then the only other side, in many cases I should think, will likely be to
compile a kernel specifically for much larger communications capabilities,
I don't actually know what the current limits of our pre-compiled kernels
are in that way, but it is very likely that a large comms site would need
to extend buffers and ensure the likes of comms combining are handled. (You
know I really don't know how far our kernels have gone these days, it is
such a long time since I had to compile one).
But all in all the transition from high end UNIX to high end Linux is not
such a difficult transition, of cause they is a fair amount of donkey work
to do, but I would rather be faced with that than the horrible thought of
attempting to squeeze a UNIX onto and NT box.
They have asked for NT a few times where I work now, I wouldn't touch it
with a barge pole. If they really do want it it would have to be without
me, but I don't need to worry about my job because the only real reason
they want it is because it has Microsoft written on it, they don't actually
know anything about it because when I ask why they want it they can't give
me a reasonable answer. Then I show them the system log book which shows
cummulated down time over all the years I've been here. Only one entry from
6 years ago was due to the system itself, all others had been because of
lightening (three times in the same place), power down (outside of my
control) and a lorry aerial slicing through a main fibre optic in the
deliveries dock. Of cause they are drive problems etc, but 95% of all
faults give prior warning, keep an eye on the system when it is good and
you will spot even slight changes to the norm, then you can take care of
them long before the users would be bothered by them.
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