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Linux wasn't shocking or daring back then. Literally everyone could see that proprietary unixes (and their locked-in hardware) were doomed. "Attack of the kil

Linux wasn't shocking or daring back then. Literally everyone could see that proprietary unixes (and their locked-in hardware) were doomed. "Attack of the killer micros" had already succeeded. Exactly which micro was still somewhat unsettled.

desas 6y ago
It depends upon your environment, it wasn't clear to many people. I thought that proprietary unix was doomed when I started an internship at a bank's IT ops department in 2005. The seasoned Solaris admins I worked with had commissioned some Linux servers the year before in a non-prod setting and had written it off as a toy...
- pjmlp 6y ago
  In 2005 Nokia was still using HP-UX as our main UNIX deployment platform, and doing a Solaris port of NetAct cluster software, GNU/Linux was indeed seen as a toy still.
pjmlp 6y ago
Which could have been Windows as well, had Microsoft been serious with the POSIX subsystem.