On Fri, September 15, 2006 10:23 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
In fact, those "proprietary" OSes are at this point nothing more than redundant. There just isn't a business case these days to pay $$$$ for Unix from any vendor while rock solid enterprise linux distros are being produced for $. The Unix of yesterday is about as useful today as the mainframe of yesterday.
Tell that to IBM, who finds that Linux on mainframe to be a great combination.
Tell that people who still think buying prop OSes buys them more.
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