At 09:30 even 11/15/02 +0530, AH wrote:
You might give n number of reasons for Linux, but please remember that the sys admin and IT Managers have a career and their children to think of
Glad you thought of them. You are confusing services that can be charged against ready-made solutions that are virtually free.
I dont think so. Companies will, I suppose, /need/ someone to take responsibility. They may be free, will still need (support==money-spent).
- Solaris backed by Sun's
service contract and replacement SLA's are essential for them to save their backsides.
:)
Who wants to be an adventurist
I wouldn't call it adventurism... I would call it exploring better platforms for retaining competetiveness.
What Kishor says makes sense. How do you define 'better' here? How do you think Gnu/Linux is /better/ than, say, BSD for a critical 24/7 thingy? Or that matter even Sun or HP or Others? Who takes responsibility? How much cost difference it will make to buy, say, SunOS+support against GNU/Linux+support? If it gets too competitive Sun can always reduce the prise of the OS per say. The money making is in the service anyway.
in such a situation? very few...
GNU/Linux isn't backed by companies like Sun who push things down your throat just because they invested time and money for making something. It will only go to places where YOU take it to. Its an ecosystem like model, and evolution is the key.
yeah. So why do we need to sell the cake? Eat the cake if you want. Make more cake for anyone else who may want a bite. Help someone make the cake. Improve the recipe of the cake. But if you /do/ want to sell the cake - then sell, but why insist that all the cake sellers on the street /must/ share & disclose their recipes?
Its just that some people like me and others on the list want to make GNU/Linux evolve and take it to places. There are others who don't want to do it, probably because, they aren't supportive of the idea. I'll be happy to have a world like this.
GNU/Linux will not necessarily evolve if it runs some X company's server. "Take it to places" is a personal choice.
What makes me uncomfortable is the third pedigree, *a majority* who sit on the walls that separate the camps and jump on a side whenever they feel it gets stronger.
It may be that for many the criteria of choice here is a variable.
Maybe we must just chose on which side we want to be.
which is quite a complicated issue.
Free your mind would sound nice, but as is known by many it sometimes happens that there get created areas which do not have a pointer pointing to them - hence free() does not work.
quasi