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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Tuesday, 30 September 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Though Zemlin had used the word "sensational" to describe this blog entry, he later agreed that it was relevant to the times, given the financial excesses in the US which have led to the current crisis on Wall Street. Featured Whitepaper
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In the NYT article, Zemlin made a statement that is well backed up by numerous surveys undertaken by companies like IDC - that Linux is increasingly being used to replace proprietary Unices like Solaris. "There is a lot of evidence that Solaris and Unix have been declining, especially in web applications, IDC or Gartner are good sources for that information or even just a quick Google search," Zemlin told iTWire. For some the fact that the NYT carried such a story may be surprising; however, many are blinded by mastheads and tend to forget that this paper, at least over the last five years, has displayed woeful journalistic standards on numerous occasions. The run-up to the Iraq invasion of 2003 and the Plame affair are two instances which quickly come to mind. Zemlin had some good words for Sun. "Sun has great technology and people and are great open source citizens. But in one-on-one situations between Linux and Solaris we are often competitors. I think most of your readers know that I am a Linux advocate," he told iTWire. In the NYT article, Zemlin also dismissed Sun's OpenSolaris project, characterising it as "too little, too late." (I tend to heartily agree with that.) The shortcoming of the NYT article was that it concentrated on marketing people. Had any quotes about the shortcomings of Solaris come from a technical guru like long-time kernel developer Ted T'so - who is employed by the Linux Foundation - then people would have taken it seriously. While Zemlin has annoyed a lot of Linux users by his comments, one cannot deny that there is an underlying grain of truth in them. However, it looks like these users would much rather that Linux triumphed on its technical merits alone, rather than through the assistance of negative comments. |
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