The Linux Beacon: Can Linux Take on Big Unix Boxes?

“As I demonstrated two weeks ago, in the entry and midrange
server market, it is Unix servers, not Lintel or Wintel servers,
that are setting the price/performance pace. And up in the
enterprise server space, Unix dominates, but vendors of Linux,
Windows, and proprietary machines are all trying to get a piece of
the action, too. Now that Linux 2.6 has arrived, and scales a lot
better than Linux 2.4, plenty of IT shops are wondering whether
Linux can displace other platforms for core applications, not just
infrastructure workloads…”

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