Re: [tlug] Unix's 40th Birthday

[Sotaro Kobayashi <sotarokob@example.com>]

>  > > "It got us away from the total control that businesses
>  > > like IBM and DEC had over us."
>  > > 
>  > > BBC has reminded me that the same fortune could fall upon the current
>  > > dinosaurs - MS.
>  > 
>  > I'd be curious as to why you think so, since Windows did exactly what
>  > Unix did to get users away from that total control: let you run your
>  > programs on commodity hardware purchased from one of many vendors, all
>  > of whom are in cutthroat competition with one another.
>
> In some sense, recent Windows doesn't run on commodity hardware
> anymore.  The bottom has dropped out of the commodity market; the
> digital technology no longer is the lower limit on size and cost, it's
> the analog HCI.  And there's enormous pressure to minimize size, even
> at the cost of functionality.  On the other hand, Windows's appetite
> for resources continues to increase apparently uncontrollably.  Maybe
> WinCE runs on keitai denwa, but XP, Vista, and 7 don't.  All the Eee
> PC class machines run XP (Johnny Test to Microsoft: "Woah, didn't see
> THAT coming!"), and even with reasonable consumer boxen like my wife's
> Vaio (2.5GB RAM) an honest salesman will tell you "max out the memory
> and don't upgrade past Vista Home Premium if you want anything
> resembling performance".
>
> There's another sense in which Windows doesn't run on commodity
> hardware.  As any peripheral vendor will tell you, getting "Windows
> compatible" status for your product is pretty much as annoying and
> expensive as getting FDA approval for a new drug.  There's very little
> money spent by hardware vendors on writing Linux drivers, let alone
> qualifying against SuSE and Red Hat ... and Debian?  I don't think so!
>
> I tell you, that's starting to look like a lot of opportunities for
> disruptive innovation.  (Actually, keitai has already happened.)
>
>
>   
I totally agree.

Thank you for having given precise details on explanation about
the happening paradigm change.

Furthermore,
the server market change to cloud computing servers
seems to damage MS income by shrinking their servers license business 
opportunities.

Sotaro