I would tend not to believe anything the media writes.
Several weeks ago at a Software Engineering Symposium I had a chance
to talk with several engineers from HP, Sun, SGI, etc.
To quote an engineer from one the companies.
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We really do not care what OS is running on the hardware, just
as long as it is our hardware.
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When pressed for further information it seems that this company
has plans to sell hardware minus any OS with the assumption being
that the end-user will probably install Linux.
>
> Does this then mean that Linux (being technically superior in some
> respects to many major Un*xes) will be in an even better position to
> compete with big propriety OSes? I work with PH-UX (PHucking sUX), I
> would like to see something like linux instead of it.
I would tend to think that they are following the Digital lead
with selling hardware that does not necessarily have their OS on it.
The hardware vendors have discovered that clients are not turning
hardware
around like they use to. The clients are also not as willing to pay
the high price for "software maintainance".
They are moving more to selling based on hardware features and
less on the OS features.
> Thoughts?
>
> -Shawn
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