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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (25111)	12/20/1999 1:25:00 AM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Seriously a million programmers rarely do anything in lockstep except drive up the price of pizza. Linux is good - keeps smart young programmers from selling their souls to Microsoft to pay the bills but there will Never be one version of Linux or any OS that will run on an Intel PC to a Supercomputer competitively. Since its open source someone who makes system A will optimize it to run on their SMP server and someone else will optimize it to run on their NUMA server and before you know it you have, well...Unix. Solaris takes advantage of many features on SUN hardware like the ability to reconfigure CPU's and Memory dynamically and redirect I/O paths in case of failure. What about clustering - how about Starfire Domains? Are you saying that Linux will cover all of these bases and retain a single ABI port? Rather than being just a "box" I would argue that Solaris and Sun Hardware are tightly integrated and that Suns value as a HW vendor is derived from this integration.

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