The command line is a wonderful thing, and a developer skilled in the ways of vi (or emacs if you must) can build great applications; IBM thinks developers can do even better with its Eclipse IDE.
At UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth, Thom Holwerda makes a rather silly argument that Unix security is no better than the worst of Windows security because the result to the user is the same: his personal files can be damaged by a worm or virus even if system files are more protected.
Spending for Windows servers passed that for Unix servers in the fourth quarter of 2005, as Windows passed the venerable operating system in the global market for the first time.
Hewlett Packard, Sun, and IBM used to own the high-end hardware, high-priced proprietary OS market; all three support open-source operating systems today and that could accelerate the market's continued shrinkage.
I was in a meeting last week where a customer was exploring switching from a Unix platform to Windows.
Virtual tape does just what you'd think: a backup thinks it's writing to tape, but in reality the data is going elsewhere. It may still end up on tape eventually, but in the meantime it's heading for disk, local or otherwise. This stuff isn't cheap, but then neither are the systems where people would be interested in it.
"Windows Beat Unix, But It Won't Beat Linux" makes some valid points, but I think it leaves out one very important thing.
"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics." The source of that truth seems to be unknown, but it's sure on the mark for statistics reported in the Unix server market.
The news from Microsoft is that they will be putting more Unix features into their server offerings according to...
Factory revenue in the worldwide server market went up to $12.2 billion for the second quarter, up 5.6% compared to last year.
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