[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“The future is anything but bright for proprietary Unix
operating systems. According to a new report, flavors of Unix from
the main vendors–hardware heavyweights HP, IBM and Sun–will lose
out to Linux, and even Microsoft’s emerging .Net.“In its Server Operating Systems–Winners and Losers in the
Open/Proprietary OS Market report, Butler Group backs the
two-pronged Linux and Microsoft market. Linux is ‘the long-term
winner by a knockout,’ with .Net ‘outperforming between 2005 and
2008.’“Over the next three years Linux will rapidly penetrate file and
print servers, typically replacing Windows NT, low-end servers will
move to Linux, and high-end servers will eventually move to .Net
and Linux…”