Posted by: JonmaddogHall
on October 29, 2003 07:17 AM
I have known Jonathan Eunice for over fifteen years. He
is an honest, thoughtful person. He has invented a
very technical way of evaluating an operating system versus what are important characteristics for a customer trying to chose an OS.
When Linux first started I asked him what he thought about it. He stated that it was "a toy", which was a reasonable statement comparing the
Linux of that time against the commercial grade
Unix operating systems on a feature basis. But
as Linux got better and better (adding SMP, journaled file systems, larger memory, more
processors
), Jonathan changed his attitude toward
it, and at the conference actually said that he
would support using it for most enterprise uses
except the very highest and largest database
uses.
Also know that analysts like Jonathan usually
are conservative, and while he knows about the
changes made to the V2.6 kernel, they usually
like to see it in action in a formal distribution
and acting at real customer's sites.
He also looked me straight in the face and told me
that he thought I would be out of a job in two years, meaning that every enterprise would be using Linux, and a Linux evangelist would not be needed. I told him that I already had an exit strategy planned.
What you saw in this story is not everything that
Jonathan said, but is simply what someone reported
on what he said. The fact that a reporter
chose to report on two 15-second sound bites out
of a fifty-minute talk does not justify calling
Jonathan a "tard"
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Re:Near Religious Zealots???
Posted by: JonmaddogHall on October 29, 2003 07:17 AMis an honest, thoughtful person. He has invented a
very technical way of evaluating an operating system versus what are important characteristics for a customer trying to chose an OS.
When Linux first started I asked him what he thought about it. He stated that it was "a toy", which was a reasonable statement comparing the
Linux of that time against the commercial grade
Unix operating systems on a feature basis. But
as Linux got better and better (adding SMP, journaled file systems, larger memory, more
processors
), Jonathan changed his attitude toward
it, and at the conference actually said that he
would support using it for most enterprise uses
except the very highest and largest database
uses.
Also know that analysts like Jonathan usually
are conservative, and while he knows about the
changes made to the V2.6 kernel, they usually
like to see it in action in a formal distribution
and acting at real customer's sites.
He also looked me straight in the face and told me
that he thought I would be out of a job in two years, meaning that every enterprise would be using Linux, and a Linux evangelist would not be needed. I told him that I already had an exit strategy planned.
What you saw in this story is not everything that
Jonathan said, but is simply what someone reported
on what he said. The fact that a reporter
chose to report on two 15-second sound bites out
of a fifty-minute talk does not justify calling
Jonathan a "tard"
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