Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 19:30 -0800, Andy Streich wrote:
> On Monday 07 November 2005 05:28 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in
> > > high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime
> > > correspond to millions of dollars lost. It's not reasonable IMO to
> > > expect OSS to serve that market -- yet.
> >
> > Sounds like you are underrating FLOSS... Isn't Google using the Linux
> > kernel. Or rather aren't you saying that the corporates haven't opened
> > their eyes yet.
>
> Saying that FLOSS has not yet solved all problems in all areas is not
> underrating it. Sure Google uses GNU/Linux but what is the cost to Google or
> its users if one of their servers faults? There are several areas FLOSS has
> not begun to penetrate all of which have hard realtime constraints where lots
> of money and/or lives are on the line: military, industrial control, finance
Finance? One of the reasons that Sun is hurting so bad is that the
big financial companies are replacing big Sun boxes with Lintel
systems.
As for "military", I'd disagree with that, since there are *lots*
of Lintel systems in the military.
Of course, (as cool as the idea is) I hope Linux isn't running
the guidance system on a BGM-109. Integrity RTOS and Ada95 would
be my hope.
> and medicine come quickly to mind.
>
> FLOSS can only enter those areas when there is a seachange in how the world
> economy functions. I think there are many interesting questions about when
> and how that kind of change might occur. Debain GNU/Linux is a big part of
> the equation but no more so than OpenOffice. I know user apps are not seen
> as very exciting to OS gurus but OpenOffice is affecting the economics of
> software as much as GNU/Linux itself.
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