It doesnt matter how much Unix has lost ground. I agree that Unix lost ground, everyone knows that. The question is not about the past. Let us instead try to look into the future instead.
Oracle has 370.000 customers and they pay big money. Sun had 35.000 customers. Oracle will make sure that their database plays best together with Solaris 11. And Exadata is switching to Solaris too. Larry will make sure there are not only technological reasons to switch to Solaris, but also business reasons. The customers that want to utilize Oracle Database to the full extent, must use Solaris 11. What will those customers do? Switch or stay on Linux? You can not easily migrate from one database to another. In short, the future (not the past) looks bright. Solaris adoption rate among Oracle's current customers are low, and there is a huge growth potential there. If Oracle can make even a tiny percent to switch, then Oracle has reverted the trend and Solaris is actually increasing market share. Solaris itself can not revert the declining trend, but Oracle will use Solaris to drive their applications better than any other OS. And people use and care about applications. In short, Solaris has greater potential to grow than ever before (370.000 new customers). Or in other words, the future is bright for Solaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
