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Nothing stays the same for ever ... Simple Facts of Life

``Do you mean "end state?" That is, once the enterprise has migrated to Linux it remain there, only to be supplanted by subsequent Linux upgrades? Likely, yes.''

What makes you think that Linux is a STEADY not improving entity? As a matter of fact Linux has shown the most agility and activity in people participatign and contributing to improve it. This is a simple fact. You better take a look at the availability of applications and most importantly the developement environments that have been built on Linux (and UNIX for that matter) in the last 4+ years. And mind you most of these environments work NOT ONLY on Linux but on more serious OSs (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc.)


``Enterprise computing has advanced from client-server to web-enabled applications, with information views through portals (not good news for the ERP vendors). Today there is still a ployglot assemblage of operating systems, and serious Linux migration is constrained by the numbers of qualified engineers. The Firefox-Linux linkup is a fine one, but it will take time to become ubiquitous''

Web based computing is still client-server and it has to be. Viewing stuff on a web page is NOT useful if you cannot ACT on it via the same interface. As a matter of fact the web-based i/f were chosen as the common denominator so that ALL these platforms can get to (at least loosely) cooperate. However, with the distributed objects that are built on top of web-enabled apps not only you don't lose the client/server capability but you can leverage it to the fullest.

Myself I don't consider web-enabled mechanisms as anything of sophistication. But alas, it was the fact that the ubiquitus ms windows was SO MUCH LACKING in cooperating with other platforms that forced people to use the web/http as a communication substrate to build their distr. functionality.

But what is your point anyway? That whoever selects Linux to build infrastructure is condemned by the lack of experienced Linux proffesionals?

Why do you think that the world is unchangeable with ms windows always the ubiquitus piece of s/w and the rest just confined in small niches? MS dos started exactly like that but it displased other desktop solutions.

Nevertheless, the fact that the big players are pooring money to built development tools that everyone can use for free and develop code for commercial applications is definitely stimulating demand for developers. I don't want to see windows disappearing from the scene as that would remove the motive from the big palyers to improve.

-m

Posted by: michael-t   Posted on: 04/13/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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