[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[JF Mezei]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Solaris OS is cheaper than SPARC HW, so Solaris may be allowed
> to stay for a decade more than SPARC.

A decade is a very long time in IT.  Yes, you can safely bet that
support for it will continue for a decade. But that does not mean that
it will remain mainstream.

On the other hand, should Oracle come out with a killer app that is only
available on Solaris, you could see Solaris become "industry standard"
for servers. (Same applies to IBM with its AIX or MVS).

Right now, it appears that Linux will be king for servers. But that
doesn't mean it will be so 10 years from now.