> 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.
I'm not looking for an arugument or trying to soud like a troll,. But I still think if Oracle does not change it's current ideas for solaris it will die out. Solaris has always been more advaced then linux but that has not stop shops migrating to linux,again, that is why in 2005 sun opensourced solaris and added x86 support,to attract customers to it. solaris while still being opensourced and with x86 support not to mention with free updates did not do that well against linux. linux on x86 platforms were still outselling solaris. I don't thik it matters how advance oracle make solaris to be, it will continue to decrese.unless oracle repairs the failed brand before starting to charge for contracts at $1000+. I think customers will demand oracle to focus it's database on linux and oracle will need to deliver. i liked solaris and i was excited when it were opensourced but now i think it's put right back on its death path. IDC analyst numbers: In two years li nux shipmets were 5.1 millon. solaris only had 747,000 shipments, not good...and that is while solaris got opensourced and free to use. so all those neat new advances that were added to solaris meant squawk. excerpt: Thanks to its strong support of the x86 hardware architecture, "in terms of overall volume, Linux is just a much higher volume product than Solaris ever was," says Al Gillen, an IDC analyst. IDC data show that worldwide Linux shipments in 2006 were about 2.4 million in 2006 and nearly 2.7 million in 2007. By contrast, Solaris shipments totaled 376,000 in 2006 and 371,000 last year. Solaris, Zemlin says, is losing market share because it does not have a good price performance or value proposition. Zemlin also disputes Sun's notion that Solaris technology gives it an edge over Linux. "The only people I hear talk about DTrace [Solaris's technology for assessing program and OS behaviours] and ZFS [the Zettabyte File System] as competitive features [are] Sun Microsystems sales representatives. It's not something I believe is impacting the market in any way," he says." http://www.infoworld.com/d/networking/sun-solaris-its-deathbed-837 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
