Myths about Linux:
It seems to me that many people here have difficulties handling this Linux thing. Therefore this list:
- You cannot measure Linux with stocks like LNUX and RHAT.
- Linux does not make stock holders rich, it just creates a market with very high level of competition, just like GSM, Internet etc.
- The US market seems to be irrelevant to Linux success.
- Success of Linux is not to wipe out Microsoft, but to give the users a real choice. Microsoft will never be wiped out.
- Linux is not a product like Windows or Unix. It's a method, and way of doing things.
- Linux is the professionally best supported OS in the world. When IBM is broke, Linux will still be supported.
- Microsoft has contributed to Linux software (Perl with Unicode for Windows), and they will most probably contribute with more later.
- Linux/Unix is an OS, where you can predict performance, hardware requirements etc. This makes it an exact science which becomes more and more a requirement in the market. Windows is more like that "hack" that works, works well, but only Microsoft knows why.
- Fortune 500 use Linux.
- Linux is a true multiuser operating system. Windows will get there in 4-8 years.
- Linux is 64-bit. Windows will eventually get there too.
- Linux is much more scalable. Especially downwards. Try tu run Windows 2000 Datacenter server on 8MB RAM... Upwards the kernel can be replaced with something else, like Sun Solaris, but the software running on the server is still the same that is on a Linux Distribution CD. Even IBM mainframes run Linux today.
- Today, Intel, IBM, Oracle would prefer Linux to become so big a success, that Windows sales decline. So having stocks in both Oracle and Microsoft is really driving with seatbelts fastened. |
