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Monday, June 8. 2009

Many media outlets and Linux zealots talk the imminent death of Unix to the advantage of Linux. Nice to see, that customers think different. The Computerworld writes in "Survey: Unix has a long and healthy future, say users":

When asked to select a statement describing their Unix strategy, more than half underlined the importance of Unix by selecting "Unix is an essential platform for us and will remain so indefinitely" (42%) or "We are increasing our use of Unix" (15%). Another 18% described Unix's role as shrinking, but not disappearing. 17% pointed to plans to migrate away from Unix.

I have only a single problem with this article:

AIX was the most commonly reported flavor of Unix used by the survey base (42%), followed by Solaris/SPARC (39%), HP-UX (25%), Solaris/x86 (22%), Other Unix flavors/versions (19%), Mac OS X Server (12%) and OpenSolaris (10%).

I don´t think that AIX is the most comonly reported flavour, as they seperate the the Solaris franchise into three different groups. There should be at least 3% of people, that doesn´t use Solaris/SPARC but the other versions. Well, don´t believe a statistic without having brushed the data yourself

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris, The IT Business at 11:05 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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those numbers don't add up any way you slice em:

42+39+25+22+19+12+10 = 169%

or if you just take the 39% for solaris as including opensolaris, x86 and sparc you get:

42+39+25+19+12 = 137%

ok - how about aix + solaris + hp-ux=?!

42+39+25 = 106%

so much for journalism.

#1 bro on 2009-06-08 15:07 (Reply)

I think, mentioning several Operating System was possible ...

#1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-06-08 16:35 (Reply)

I wonder why they didn't split up Opensolaris into x86 and sparc any further? and why is hp-ux not split into hppa and x64? or split aix into ppc and.. and.. err, what does aix even run on?

#2 Woo (Homepage) on 2009-06-08 15:32 (Reply)

Another interesting thing you should pay attention to is that the number of OpenSolaris.
According to that report, the opensolaris is 10% while linux (Other Unix flavors/versions) is 19%. I know opensolaris is very robust. I doubt that there are so many Enterprise users will put OpenSolaris to their Rigs unless sun and opensolaris communtiy really did a better job than linux.

#3 adam on 2009-06-09 07:12 (Reply)

Linux wasn´t part of this questionaire ... it was about Unix ... i think the 19 percent ar other operating systems like IRIX, True64 et al ...

#3.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-06-09 20:09 (Reply)

What those of you who are simply adding the numbers are missing is that you are assuming that the respondents could only check a single box. Of course respondents use different vendors operating systems in their datacentres. We really can't do anything with these numbers to try to look at the three versions of Solaris as a whole without the actual data, although I suspect that it wouldn't be far off to suggest that if a person said yes to OpenSolaris or Solaris/x86, then they are probably also using Solaris/SPARC. But again, that's a wild assed guess.

Alan.

#4 Alan Hargreaves (Homepage) on 2009-06-09 14:12 (Reply)

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