On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:22, steve szmidt wrote:
> And it sucks! The big one! I forgot how poorly I thought of Solaris!
I would beg to differ. The Solaris kernel offers quite a bit of
scalability.
> Someone is even hoping/suggesting that now Linux development will
> come to a grind as SOLARIS is available!
Sounds like they are clueless. That's like saying all other Freedomware
office development stopped once OpenOffice.org was founded.
> Someone was clearly on something...
Yeah. I don't think people realize that people don't use OSes, they use
applications.
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