Solaris Is Dead. Long Live Linux.

Hot on the heels of acquiring Sun, Oracle has changed the license for Solaris making it non-free once again. In a time like this, such a move can only be fatal and of course ultimately beneficial to Linux.

Christopher Smart

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

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We are all waiting to see just exactly what Oracle will do with the late Sun’s assets. Now we are starting to see some of the picture loud and clear. Linux has certainly revolutionized the computer industry. What was once the domain of expensive, proprietary Unix systems now belongs to our favorite operating system. With big players like IBM making the decision to support Linux, it has effectively killed off its proprietary competition. Google’s entire network runs on Linux, as does the majority of the Internet. In the year 2000, Linux accounted for little over 5% of the world’s super computers. Who had majority market share? Proprietary Unix at 90%.

Less than a decade later those numbers are completely reversed. That’s right, folks. Today, Linux owns just shy of 90% market share, with Unix having fallen to a…

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