IT-Director: Linux: Crashes to the ground

“When escaping a planet’s atmosphere, thrust has to be
maintained. Failure to do so will see a vehicle stall and lead to
the eventual break-up of the craft. Sections, pilots and equipment
will tumble at ever-increasing velocity in descending back to the
planet’s surface for total annihilation. Much likened to the
prospect of Linux, once a momentum of great significance, it is now
showing signs of stalling. Could this be true? Or is this the
calm before the storm.”

“Linux has been struggling to get off the ground as a desktop,
competing with the likes of Windows. As a server solution it has
done well, a cheaper solution for the dotcoms, a stable solution
for the Telco’s. Variants of kernels have
offered benefits in different arenas; applications have been
developed for businesses and with some degree of success. As with
any planetoid environment, the world of Linux has changed by
season. Currently in the season of Linux weakness, the servers have
come under attack from aliens, the hackers, when everyone thought
it was safe. What is the next season going to be, a serious
bug?”

“Linux had strength, the OpenSource philosophy, a great idea
that worked, so much so, that visitors from other parts of the
galaxy, namely Apple, used it to develop the Mac version ten.
Hopefully, this is going to be a success, but it is only faith,
Apple are being strategic in the hardware and software positioning
and playing at stretching the news game. If this release does fail
to take off, the international rescue plan for OpenSource goes to
the grave too. If it succeeds, it may draw attention away from the
great Linux object in the sky. A lose-lose game, where there is
more chance for MacOSX to be taken seriously and commercially
distributed.”

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