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You need billions and billions of dollars to keep such project alive. And even then if you cant attract the right amount of interest you are doomed. It is blood

You need billions and billions of dollars to keep such project alive. And even then if you cant attract the right amount of interest you are doomed. It is bloody expensive to keep these people employed and i guess oracle is not competent enough to manage these resources. It is sad to see solaris go but this is what was about to happen with any proprietary technology with a limited stream of revenue. I mean i do not think customers cared that much about what they run on as long as their apps and dbs were fine. Since windows and linux are way cheaper it was a matter of time.

jacquesm 9y ago
> You need billions and billions of dollars to keep such project alive. Makes you wonder where Linus stores his old socks.
- holydude 9y ago
  Oh you seriously believe linux is not where it is due to huge sums from intel,samsung,red hat and countless of others ? Please...
  - jacquesm 9y ago
    > Oh you seriously believe linux is not where it is due to huge sums from intel,samsung,red hat and countless of others ? With the exception of Red Hat I totally concur that Linux has moved very far because of financial infusions from industry. But at the same time that 'toy operating system' was already quite usable before any of that happened. As for Red Hat, they exist because of Linux, not the other way around.
    - tw04 9y ago
      We can agree to disagree on that point. Redhat is basically the universally supported platform in the enterprise. You want to call inf or a support case on that SAS HBA? You need to be running Redhat. You have a flaky NIC? Redhat. New Fibre Channel HBA? Redhat. And rightly so, the vendor on the other end needs to know they've got an actual live person to work with on troubleshooting. Without Redhat I have no doubt Linux would still be alive and well, but it would NEVER have gotten the foothold it has in the enterprise today (coming from someone who worked at one of those hardware vendors back in the day and tried to push for support of other distributions).
    - dboreham 9y ago
      I lived through these times, trying to port and support major server applications on Linux. Your thoughts on this are entirely inconsistent with my experience.
  - nimchimpsky 9y ago
    yeah actually.

jacquesm 9y ago

> You need billions and billions of dollars to keep such project alive. Makes you wonder where Linus stores his old socks.

holydude 9y ago
Oh you seriously believe linux is not where it is due to huge sums from intel,samsung,red hat and countless of others ? Please...
- jacquesm 9y ago
  > Oh you seriously believe linux is not where it is due to huge sums from intel,samsung,red hat and countless of others ? With the exception of Red Hat I totally concur that Linux has moved very far because of financial infusions from industry. But at the same time that 'toy operating system' was already quite usable before any of that happened. As for Red Hat, they exist because of Linux, not the other way around.
  - tw04 9y ago
    We can agree to disagree on that point. Redhat is basically the universally supported platform in the enterprise. You want to call inf or a support case on that SAS HBA? You need to be running Redhat. You have a flaky NIC? Redhat. New Fibre Channel HBA? Redhat. And rightly so, the vendor on the other end needs to know they've got an actual live person to work with on troubleshooting. Without Redhat I have no doubt Linux would still be alive and well, but it would NEVER have gotten the foothold it has in the enterprise today (coming from someone who worked at one of those hardware vendors back in the day and tried to push for support of other distributions).
  - dboreham 9y ago
    I lived through these times, trying to port and support major server applications on Linux. Your thoughts on this are entirely inconsistent with my experience.
- nimchimpsky 9y ago
  yeah actually.