SCO fizzles

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Collins Richey:
> On 24 Aug 2003 20:45:45 -0400
> 
> > Sun views their niche to be a very large share of the mid-high end
> > Enterprise market. This is not an area where Linux has been a strong
> > threat. 
> 
> Underline "has not been."  This is now changing due to the IBM effort.
> 
> Any company large enough to consider IBM Z series mainframes is going to
> think twice about the headaches of running a traditional server farm of
> unix or linux boxes.  The simplicities of scaling up processing power
> as needed and the ability to run thousands of server images on a Z
> series with not much more effort than a handful is going to eat Sun's
> lunch in its traditional, profitable mid-high-end niche

The "simplicities" are only simple for those shops that already have
big iron expertise on staff. For everyone else, simplicity is buying
another box and adding it to the server farm.

Kurt
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