At the Linux Foundation, the future of Solaris, or should I say lack thereof, is clear. Executive Director Jim Zemlin is adamant that "the future is Linux and Microsoft Windows...is not Unix or Solaris." Zemlin notes that companies are increasingly moving over to Linux, accelerated by its strength in the web applications space. The trend is accelerating as systems based on Solaris and other variants of Unix reach the end of their life cycles, with these customers increasingly migrating to Linux. Due to its lower cost to run, Linux is set to triumph over the likes of Sun's Solaris and other Unix systems, whose legacy architecture are more expensive.
To find out more about the rise of Linux:
- check out this New York Times article [1]
Links:
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C400693880002574CE00371FE1.html