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_________________________________________________________________ <BR> <BR> Note 3 <BR> <BR> The Vendor Impact <BR> <BR> 1. SCO and Solaris (Intel) target the heavily replicated Intel server <BR> market with branded Unix OSs. This model falls apart under the more <BR> attractive Linux positioning presented in this Research Note. <BR> <BR> 2. Neither IBM, HP, Compaq nor SGI can accept the complementary <BR> strategy, since RISC Unix at the low end will eventually be starved <BR> out by the better price/performance of Intel, although support <BR> requirements will increase. While Unix will survive on Intel, it will <BR> not survive well on low-end IA-32 hardware against Windows 2000, Linux <BR> or Novell. <BR> <BR> 3. As Linux is increasingly accepted for Unix at the low end and <BR> midrange, RISC-based architectures will come under increased pressure <BR> by 2003, since Intel will fill out both the low and the high end with <BR> IA-64 technology, and the Linux movement will spread OSS applications <BR> across a fuller spectrum. <BR> <BR> 4. Unix vendors can choose either to provide an Internet version of <BR> their branded Unix at virtually no cost, including OSS-ported <BR> applications, or to turn to Linux as an attempt to weave Linux into <BR> their hardware and software architectures (e.g., a common management <BR> framework). <BR> _________________________________________________________________ <BR> <BR> 4. Linux will not displace Unix wholesale from the high-end market in <BR> the next three to five years because: Unix is well-entrenched legacy <BR> technology, Linux is not easily portable to RISC architectures and <BR> would represent the same kind of fragmentation that Unix has, Linux <BR> would complicate existing OS heterogeneity problems, and Linux <BR> currently lacks a fast-track process to achieve mission-critical <BR> enhancements equivalent to those offered by Unix vendors. <BR> <BR> 5. The Linux service/support model is limited to the OS and <BR> surrounding infrastructure. This support is usually available in most <BR> enterprises (through Unix and NT experience); most added-value support <BR> is for the OS and future enhancements and upgrades, which vendors can <BR> outsource to Linux distributors and vendors. Linux reliability and <BR> remote support (through its modular nature) will lessen the need for <BR> 24x7 service and support, but the burgeoning acceptance of Linux can <BR> still support several quality Linux vendors in addition to the Unix <BR> vendor community (especially where global deployments are required). <BR> Linux and Unix communities would become symbiotic. <BR> _________________________________________________________________ <BR> <BR> Acronym Key <BR> <BR> 24x7 24 hours a day, seven days a week <BR> <BR> API Application programming interface <BR> <BR> ASP Average selling price <BR> <BR> ccNUMA Cache-coherent nonuniform memory access <BR> <BR> DBMS Database management system <BR> <BR> ERP Enterprise resource planning <BR> <BR> GNU GNU's Not Unix <BR> <BR> ISV Independent software vendor <BR> <BR> OS Operating system <BR> <BR> OSS Open-source software <BR> <BR> RISC Reduced instruction set computer <BR> <BR> SCO The Santa Cruz Operation <BR> _________________________________________________________________ <BR> <BR> Bottom Line: Type C (conservative) and some Type B (mainstream) users <BR> will be less skeptical about Linux if vendors restructure their server <BR> OS strategies to a continuum of branded Unix and vendor-independent <BR> Linux, positioned as a Unixlike enterprise-supported OS. Type A users <BR> (aggressive technology adopters) can retain more independence without <BR> a vendor-led Linux strategy, but at the cost of more time and <BR> resources devoted to the evaluation and selection process. Enterprises <BR> should accept Linux as a low-to-midrange Unix substitute with a <BR> feature/function set similar enough to Unix's to warrant its <BR> widespread deployment, but only once vendors have integrated Linux <BR> seamlessly into their hardware and OS strategies. <BR> ______下面这些版权所有声明什么的, 愿意就看, 但我必须保留. :)______ <BR> <BR> This document has been published by: <BR> Service Date Document # <BR> Unix & Midrange Strategies 11 January 2000 SPA-09-9247 <BR> PRISM for Distributed Computing 11 January 2000 SPA-09-9247 <BR> Information Technology Management - Distributed 14 January 2000 <BR> SPA-09-9247 <BR> Information Technology Management Europe - Distributed 14 January 2000 <BR> SPA-09-9247 <BR> Information Technology Management Asia/Pacific - Distributed 14 <BR> January 2000 SPA-09-9247 <BR> _________________________________________________________________ <BR> <BR> Entire contents (C) 2000 by Gartner Group, Inc. 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