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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/13/2012 9:39 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.

Absolutely true.

> 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).

The killer apps that sell volume would be done on Linux.

If Oracle did not then IBM would do it.

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

Given that Linux is still growing, then it seems reasonable
to expect them to be huge in 10 years.

But Linux could certainly start the slow decline within
the next 10 years.

Arne