Comment World Domination????? (Score 1) 51
Hmmm,
I'm going to get flamed to death for this, but here goes. This whole World Domination thing is getting a bit boring. I'm extremely pro-linux, but lets be honest, there are certain things that it will never be able to do in the short to medium term.
A couple of people made comments last week about Scott McNealys comment on out engineering Solaris on Sparc. Lets be honest here folks, who is going to get access to E10000 to get a Linux system up and running on it? Its not going to happen. Linux is an excellent OS for an awful lot of stuff, its my OS of choice for a lot of the non work related development stuff I do, but I won't even think about using it for writing Java apps and some other stuff that I do.
Linuxs marketplace is going (from where I'm looking anyway) going to be in replacing stuff up to NT server levels, but something which is going to require say a million transactions a day on SAP/Oracle/Informix, well thats at least three or four years away, and at that stage the big servers will probably need to run more, and the whole cycle starts again.
I've only heard of Oracle on Linux being deployed on a semi-large scale in one place, is there anywhere else that people know of?
Linux does have the potential to become an extremely potent and influential force in computers, and I'm looking forward to seeing this happen, but its not the world domination end folks. The major thing that I'm looking forward to dealing with over the next couple of years is the people that have been involved with the entire paradigm shift that we are seeing at the moment, this is where Linuxs influence is fast becoming evident. As has been pointed out before we are the managers (I know its a horrible word) of the future, but people who aren't working in a commercial env at the moment don't seem to see that not everyone wants, or has the abilty to, use Linux.
anyway back to work,
l8r,
egnarts
I'm going to get flamed to death for this, but here goes. This whole World Domination thing is getting a bit boring. I'm extremely pro-linux, but lets be honest, there are certain things that it will never be able to do in the short to medium term.
A couple of people made comments last week about Scott McNealys comment on out engineering Solaris on Sparc. Lets be honest here folks, who is going to get access to E10000 to get a Linux system up and running on it? Its not going to happen. Linux is an excellent OS for an awful lot of stuff, its my OS of choice for a lot of the non work related development stuff I do, but I won't even think about using it for writing Java apps and some other stuff that I do.
Linuxs marketplace is going (from where I'm looking anyway) going to be in replacing stuff up to NT server levels, but something which is going to require say a million transactions a day on SAP/Oracle/Informix, well thats at least three or four years away, and at that stage the big servers will probably need to run more, and the whole cycle starts again.
I've only heard of Oracle on Linux being deployed on a semi-large scale in one place, is there anywhere else that people know of?
Linux does have the potential to become an extremely potent and influential force in computers, and I'm looking forward to seeing this happen, but its not the world domination end folks. The major thing that I'm looking forward to dealing with over the next couple of years is the people that have been involved with the entire paradigm shift that we are seeing at the moment, this is where Linuxs influence is fast becoming evident. As has been pointed out before we are the managers (I know its a horrible word) of the future, but people who aren't working in a commercial env at the moment don't seem to see that not everyone wants, or has the abilty to, use Linux.
anyway back to work,
l8r,
egnarts
