PC Week: Labs'-eye view | Linux Today

PC Week: Labs’-eye view

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 1, 1999

“Linux is still ugly and difficult to install, but, boy, is it
fast. However, I find it difficult to applaud a product for
mimicking the capabilities of its competitors–and a couple of
years later, at that. With the exception of Novell–and we know how
its market share is doing–operating system vendors have been
providing symmetric multiprocessing support for I/O-intensive
applications a while now.”

“The community developing for Linux moves at a snail’s
pace.”

“And with growing support from top-tier vendors, who knows?
Maybe in five years we’ll be saying, ‘No one ever got fired for
buying Linux.'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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