On Fri, Nov 19, 2010, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz on the OI dev list wrote:
> The hard point is that the number of current solaris users is far below the > number of linux users. I'm replying to this thread here instead of on the developer lest someone issue me a netiquette citation for being off topic. How do you quantify something like that? Even if you have some industry confirmed sales numbers comparable to IDC tracking desktop PC and notebook sales, how do you figure out just how many users a server has regardless of its operating system? Does a web server have a half dozen users because there are two sysadmins, two content providers, and two developers? Or does it have 10 million unique visitors every day and therefore have ten million and six users? Whenever I see this comment it boggles my mind -- especially when in the context of Unix systems regardless of flavor. For example, the commercial OSes that have sold licenses based on 10 users or unlimited users. Ten users of what? Shell accounts? Ten entries in the password file? What does that mean and how can you claim that one OS has more "users" than any another? -Gary _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
