I say this because early in its development Linux was a hackers toy and thus
not able to compete with the more mature and stable Unix variants at the time.
It would not have been successful in a production environment.
This is all changed. It has evolved, it is evolving. What it may not be suitable for
now does not not mean it won't be in the forseeable future. There is
demand for linux in the server room now and well into the past. Presently demand
is also growing for it on the desktop corporate evironments where a competent IT
staff can provide support for the hard stuff. In the future, we shall see more acceptance.
I'm amazed at how much easier is to work with Linux each time I install the latest
distrubution of <name a dist here>.
Windows is not always easy to install/use/troubleshoot even for us IT professionals
and Linux can become acceptable by the unwashed masses.
Bob Bell wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:10:45PM -0500, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote:
Linux has been a failure in the server room and somehow it has recovered very well. What does not
kill it only makes it stronger.
I'm very curious why you say that "Linux has been a failure in the server room", when it appears to me to be a growing success story?
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