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Back in the 90s Solaris ruled the world and you could be fired for bringing a Linux system into the building, everyone assumed open source was insecure in the 9
by shams93 10y ago
Back in the 90s Solaris ruled the world and you could be fired for bringing a Linux system into the building, everyone assumed open source was insecure in the 90s. It was immature so it was scary for the suits back then. Things have changed a lot lol.
- JudasGoat 10y agoAs a sysadmin from the 90"s. I was told by the CTO of a fortune 500 company, "You will never run Linux on my network". So yeah, what you said.
- trentnelson 10y agoThat was a pretty sensible position in the 90s. Linux was in its infancy, and the commercial UNIX vendors all had very robust offerings (Solaris/Tru64/AIX/HP-UX/IRIX; all very good systems at the time).
- technofiend 10y agoI brought Slackware to my then boss @ Chevron in 1991 or so and showed him it booted fine from two floppies. He was like but every engineer already has a DECstation! What do we need that for? This from a company that had UNIX on everything from a Cray down to a desktop. It wasn't obvious from early on that Linux would eventually spell doom for both desktop and servers but here we are.