I disagree here. Linux is in the best position to kill Windows on the desktops and Servers... There are market reasons for it. But the BSD's can benefit from Linux code and be in the same position if they choose to, give time and some other Marketting Wave.
As for IBM, I don't know if I'd say that they'll never get back the money they've invested in Linux... Truth is, Linux is the glue which ties all their platforms together. Linux will run on the pSeries (RS6000/AIX), the eSeries (AS400/OS400) and the zSeries (MVS/OS390), as well as all their Intel/Motorola hardware. While this may force a cut in IBM's staff at some point, it makes sense for IBM to centralize on Linux. Why? Because Microsoft doesn't run on most of those platforms. There is a lot of business that Linux opens up to IBM. Suddenly IBM's Big hardware can run the core File and Print, DNS, DHCP, and Web for any Fortune 500 company who needs the uptime and the power. They are finding their huge hardware being ousted by systems that are cheaper to maintain. Linux allows all their systems to keep basically one codebase (with minor exceptions) and that codebase isn't even theirs to maintain... and better yet, it doesn't cost them a cent. IBM is a hardware and services company. This is right up their alley. On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:12:14 -0500 ronnie gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The computer world agrees that linux is the only OS that has the possibility > to be the windows killer. The only thorn that little billy could not scare, > buy, or bottom feed to death. What no one has really said is that along that > killers path is the death of commercial *nix. The windows crowd does not > care, the Linux crowd does not care, the *nix users are glad to save $$ just > as the M$ converts to Linux are. No one is unhappy except billy and > commercial *nix. I think they all put their pointy heads together and cooked > up a plan to stall Linux as long as they could, desperation can create > strange bedfellows. Going on the fact that everything is not as it seems, I > like the sound of IBM. Even though IBM has fully embraced linux on the > public front, it is not a profitable long term strategy, as they are finding > out. They are not ever going to get back the money they are now and have > invested in linux. -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eisgr.com/ Enterprise Information Systems * Network Service Appliances * Network Consulting, Integration & Support * Web Integration and E-Business _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
