[advocacy-discuss] Any responses to this Infoworld Article ?

[andrew]

Try Ben's response here:

http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=972

What struck me more than the parts Ben has picked out was this quote from Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation CEO:

"The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows"

In other words - we're not scared of Microsoft, but we're pissing out pants about the current resurgence of Solaris. The first page of the article is then Mr Zemlin telling us how hopeless he thinks Solaris is, although the author apparently believes "that Solaris has some superior features is not really in question."

The only concrete example of how Solaris is a dying duck that is cited is one customer who replaced SPARC Solaris systems with x86 Linux systems. Well blow me if that isn't a lot cheaper to support and runs faster - of course it would! These SPARC systems are probably a good few years old, like 5+, so hardware support from Sun will be costing plenty and as far as speed goes - well everyone knows Moore's Law.

I think the more the Linux "establishment" humph and haw about Solaris, the more they show they are worried Solaris is a serious threat.

(I also don't think it is any coincidence that Linus recently allowed the addition of a kernel debugger to Linux on the same two platforms Sun Solaris runs on - namely x86 and SPARC).

Cheers

Andrew.
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