Enterprise Unix Roundup: RIP Unix? | Linux Today

Enterprise Unix Roundup: RIP Unix?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 28, 2007

“It’s a little disconcerting writing your own obituary, but
recent pronouncements from Gartner’s analyst-guru George Weiss
compel me to tell you there will be no more Enterprise Unix Roundup
after 2009.

“What will kill this now-venerable column is the same thing Darl
McBride claims killed The SCO Group: a certain fat, smiling
penguin-loving operating system called Linux. At least, that’s what
Weiss claims.

“Enterprise Unix Roundup will in fact suffer a secondary death,
following the demise of the Unix operating system, which Weiss
pinned down at 2009 in his recent address to the Gartner Open
Source Summit. At that future time, he told the audience, no more
new commercial Unix applications will be created…”

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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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