On Saturday 24 May 2003 01:29 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
- Curtis Rey (crrey@charter.net) [030524 12:00]: -> ->Ya, the other thing to consider is that when there's more "expendable" money ->it tends to fullfil it's name sake. In otherwords it get expended. I often ->wonder if the economy didn't take a dump a couple years ago where Linux and ->OSS would be.
Well, for a long time the money spent on Sun equipment was spent because of some .com crazy or because it was expendable. It was spent because Sun boxes and Solaris were the only thing powerful enough to build our Shared Hosting platform on which was started in 1995. Now that's not really the case since we have Linux on the Opteron. :)
Understood and it makes sense.
->On the issue of your company put a 6 month hold on implementing a possible ->Linux solution, I can't help but think that this is exactly what one of SCOs ->primary objective is - to skew the market and milk all they can out of the ->immenent obsoletion of their IPs worth.
Yes, this was one of the reasons. Because of the crap with SCO the VP of my dept didn't feel like fighting with the PHB's about it. Were gonna let it blow over because we have many, many more things on our plate right now...such as moving an entire DC full of equipment to another DC so that the building we're in now can be shutdown. We have to much space so were shoring that up. It's a simple case of lots of factors hitting at once. :) This doesn't mean that our developers aren't still working on the port of our technology to Linux. It just means we won't be spending the 5.5 million dollars we were going to spend on new hardware right now..and we won't deploy until the move is over. :)
That's very encouraging to hear. I don't have insite into the workings of most descent sized IT departments. And often the only info I get is aimed at the suits.
Believe NO one in my dept believes this SCO crap will kill Linux or hurt it's adoption much. It may cause a pause but then again these things happen.
Ya, that's my take also. I mean let's face it Linux is here to stay. It is too big and provides one thing that this whole industry has been screaming for over the past few years - a return to the type of freedom to create and utilize the power of this technology. The corporations of many of the biggest companies only what to control things. This doesn't foster any new innovations or progress. My other take on this whole SCO affair is this. It's in a sense a right of passage. It's an announcement that Linux is here, it's real, and it is going to matter. It is in a sense a wake up call for the rest.
Cheers.
Cheers, Curtis. :)