6 Jan
2005
6 Jan
'05
1:44 p.m.
Venkatesh Hariharan venky1@vsnl.com wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 19:14, chirag radhakrishnan wrote:
Hey All, Came across a nice article, released few days back. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/977511.cms Regards, Chirag
Nice article? The article is a mile off the mark! What makes Linux so popular is the community around it and the writer has totally ignored that aspect. Just because something is free does not mean it will become popular. Speaking as both, a former journalist and an open source evangelist, I think the title of the article is presumptuous and the whole article is half baked. Hopefully other journalists who are covering the subject of Linux versus Solaris will do more justice to the subject.
Venky
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By nice article I meant "interesting artcile"(pardon me for being so lineant with words). I would not totally agree with your views abt the article. What you missed to see is that linux and solaris will still be used by people using them, but now both the OS'es will actually be comparable in a whole better sense. Previously Solaris would have been excused for being costly, but now that the OS comes free it will definitely techinically and commercially challenge the benefits of Linux.
Also its not "just another free OS", it has been time tested for robustness, I bet people wud swear on the stability of solaris servers.
I feel linux not only became popular because of the intelletually sound community developing it, but also because the other major competitor(m$) failed to build something as perpetual and robust as linux.
Just my 2 cents
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