ZDNet: Threats to Linux: Expertise and Acceptance

“Do you know what most large Solaris installations have in
common? Mis-management. What seems to happen is that the people in
charge get there on the basis of large system experience in the
eighties and then forcefully apply that expertise regardless of
whether it’s appropriate to the technology or not. That’s what
happened to a lot of large business projects started on Solaris in
the mid to late ninties, why there was a resurgence in mainframe
sales as these projects were written off in 2000 one and two, and
why there’s now a threat that the same thing is about to happen
with Linux…”

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