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Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?
- From: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:08:03 +0300
- Cc: linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
- In-Reply-To: <20010422162659.A15008@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>; from nyh@math.technion.ac.il on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:26:59PM +0300
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Hi Nadav,
A friend of mine, a developer on Apache/PHP on Win2K, has numerously
claimed that the open source model won't work. It's not out of bad
intentions -- I'm sure he'd like to see it working out -
but simple logics tell him it can't work.
And then, there are the facts. 60% HTTP servers run by Apache, Linux
powering loads of mail and FTP servers around, major sites run on Linux
/ FreeBSD, not to mention cheap firewalls and NATs. At that friend's
workplace, they've ended up swapping the Win2K server with a Linux one.
(and besides, there are no losing and winning those projects -- all is
important is to "stay afloat" and have fun)
One concern though, is whether the community could pull complicated
applications -- not an MTA / HTTP server, but things like groupware
servers. Some guys think that's exactly where Linux gonna fail in favor
of commercial vendors. We'll see about that ...
--
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov
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