Re: [ossig] All Talk, No Action

[Yeak Nai Siew <yeak@md.com.my>]

Hi all,

The Open Source is a humble thing. It is more like All Talk, Silent 
Action at this moment. Wait a while and see, it is soon to be different.

I got a few customers used Linux in production and get us to maintain 
it. I won't quote their name, but their industry: Transportation, 
School, Financial, and many many Small Businesses.

I also heard Linux is popular in Oracle world where those giant 
companies are switching to Linux for being "low cost" and "reliable" as 
good as the Solaris counterpart. In fact, Oracle is really pushing a 
lot of deployment on Linux.

Another great thing I ever seen: CheckPoint NG installation CD come 
with Linux as the default OS where you can boot it up, and get the 
Firewall installed on it! So no need to install your own Linux, harden 
it, and install CheckPoint. It is like all done for you. You won't see 
this possible for Windows OS especially when the installation CD is 
given up free (buy license code later, of course) Please don't flame 
CheckPoint... I only use this as example to show that commercial 
companies do use Open Source product to build their solutions and make 
it easy for users.

Oh, talk about Appliance. One day I evaluated EDSL hardware from Korea 
and it is like a Router. Inside has the OS and the developer told me it 
is a scale down Linux OS... no wonder I found it so familiar... (uname 
-a, ps ax, etc...) So embedded Linux is silently survived in the 
market...

Silent Action, Talk Later.


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Yeak Nai Siew                  << Mac OS Forever >> << Linux Forever>>
      >>> http://www.redhat.com/rhce/rhce806200928901893.html <<<


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