Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:33:56 +1000 From: Alastair Rankine <alastair@cia.com.au> To: Dave <dave@gregory.dyn.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gartner group article Message-ID: <357977580000006D@clarence.progmatics.com.au> (added by clarence.progmatics.com.au) In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980610201455.18154A-100000@gregory.dyn.ml.or g>
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At 08:25 PM 10/06/98 -0400, you wrote: >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). I think the rationale here is that because free operating systems are developed by individuals, not corporations. The individual's range of available hardware, and the demands of scalability just aren't as great as for a corporation. -- [ Alastair Rankine ] [ mailto:alastair@cia.com.au ] [ http://www.cia.com.au/alastair ] [ pgp5 64E4 B67C D2B7 EEC4 63C9 AA74 F63A 9AD9 E44B 21C7 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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