[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“The OS wars, at least in the Internet server market, seem to
have three main players still standing: Solaris, GNU/Linux, and
Windows. Which of the various companies pushing these alternatives
will gain the upper hand in the near future? Admittedly the
question is a simplistic and difficult to make concrete. My bet is
that a simplistic but probably correct answer is: The first of SUN
or Microsoft to completely abandon their proprietary OS and
transition to GNU/Linux.”
“Although it’s possible that a company like Red Hat or Caldera
will rise up and eat SUN or Microsoft, I’m going to discount that
for now and consider what would happen if one of SUN or Microsoft
abandoned their OS….”
“Both SUN and Microsoft need to see that despite their
posturing and best efforts, they’re about to become decreasingly
important players in the server OS market, and that they
should align themselves sooner rather than later with GNU/Linux. By
not doing so it turns the whole OS world against the company that
longest clings stubbornly to their proprietary OS.”