Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Dell Technologies Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (162777)	11/14/2000 5:34:06 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

It is a philosophical thing. The vendors I have talked to that use Linux have one major reason. The can control when a particular version is obsoleted and goes unsupported. Of course to do so means they have to support it themselves but that is still better than having another company tell them when they have to upgrade. TP

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (162777)	11/15/2000 10:38:41 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Mary - a couple of comments on your post re: Linux You say: Coming out from nowhere, it now has a tremendous market share without any marketing Linux has about 5% of the server market (per IDC). While it is growing at a great rate - three times the Unix average - this is typical for software starting from a small base. It has virtually zero share of the desktop market. And also, re: it is a very elegant architecture. It is very robust and absolutely scaleable. Linux does not scale very well - above 2-way, SMP performance is very weak. The 2.4 version is supposed to address this, and some third party vendors have produced versions of the kernel which scale better - but then they have departed from the standard kernel and started the same "proprietary unix" fork that kept Unix from a single standard 10 years ago. Linux hype far exceeds Linux reality.