Re: Anyone know why the Alpha market is so so quiet?

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"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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ChrisQuayle wrote:
Why would anyone in their right mind want to run Linux for mission
critical stuff when Solaris is now free, industrial strength, has
decades of professional development effort and runs on Sparc or X86
?.


Because Linux is the current popular and trendy "soupe du jour"

As was Solaris in its day. I remember how it was being sold as the
"Open" solution to all problems.

We got SunOS boxen at university... We pwnd them - much to the staff's
disgust.


Doc.
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