“Businesses should avoid deploying Linux at the core of their IT
systems until at least 2001… ‘Businesses should not plan
migrations or new application architectures requiring deep systems
integration on Linux before ISVs and system vendors show firm
support for Linux,’ said George Weiss, Gartner’s research director
of Unix and mid-range strategies.”
“Despite large system software vendors such as Oracle, IBM and
Computer Associates promoting strategies around Linux, other
vendors including Baan, PeopleSoft and SAS Institute are ‘mostly
absent thus far’ and are ‘preventing Linux from becoming a stronger
challenger to Windows NT’, said Weiss. ‘The big exception is
SAP.’ “
“…Weiss warned users to wait until 2001 because ‘a vacuum
currently exists in the area of much-needed Linux system management
tools for back-up and recovery, volume management, file system
management, transaction recovery, high availability, San
architectures, cluster server solutions, performance management and
hierarchical storage management’.”
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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