Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:25:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave <dave@gregory.dyn.ml.org> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: gartner group article Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980610201455.18154A-100000@gregory.dyn.ml.org>
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Forgive me if this has been discussed- I've been out of the mix for a bit. Just wondering if anybody had any thoughts on the gartner group article linked from the FreeBSD website. (This seems worthy of a 'chat'.) I refer specifically to http://advisor.gartner.com/inbox/articles/ihl2_6398.html In it they say such things as: "Unix systems at free or minimal charge will lack the performance tuning, scalability and hardware platform support to make them suitable for large commercial applications through 2002 (0.9 probability). Linux will not displace mainstream commercial Unix versions from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and The Santa Cruz Operation in the next five years as commercial Unix vendors shift focus to Windows NT (0.8 probability)." I find the reference to lack of performance tuning and focus on NT most disturbing, but I hardly consider myself enough of an IT veteran to draw any real conclusions from this article. Any thoughts on this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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