Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
On 11/8/05, Andy Streich <andy@rushyglen.com> 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
> 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.
I don't know the accuracy of these statements, but they look somewhat
legitimate... and yeah, the example of Google wasn't the best, as you
just made me realise. Thanks...
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