Comments on: Numbers, Volume 2 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/02/26/numbers002/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Thu, 24 May 2012 14:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: cote http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/02/26/numbers002/comment-page-1/#comment-299409 cote Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:28:33 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/02/26/numbers002/#comment-299409 Luis: I tried to get a number from Sun, but all they'd do was say that they based their comparison on RedHat and Novell's public subscription numbers (2.5M for RedHat in Dec. 2008, they said) and that Solaris installs were higher than those. Luis: I tried to get a number from Sun, but all they'd do was say that they based their comparison on RedHat and Novell's public subscription numbers (2.5M for RedHat in Dec. 2008, they said) and that Solaris installs were higher than those.

]]> By: Luis http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/02/26/numbers002/comment-page-1/#comment-299398 Luis Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:55:12 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/02/26/numbers002/#comment-299398 "It’s a little discussed secret that Solaris enjoys the largest installed base of any commercial UNIX or Linux distribution." This is a little like saying more people have paid for Brittanica than Wikipedia. True, but distracts you quite a bit from the more important numbers at hand. True that there are equally few embedded devices running RHEL and Solaris, but Linux overall v. Solaris... very different story. Definitely ditto netbooks, supercomputers, and probably ditto web servers as well. "It’s a little discussed secret that Solaris enjoys the largest installed base of any commercial UNIX or Linux distribution."

This is a little like saying more people have paid for Brittanica than Wikipedia. True, but distracts you quite a bit from the more important numbers at hand. True that there are equally few embedded devices running RHEL and Solaris, but Linux overall v. Solaris… very different story. Definitely ditto netbooks, supercomputers, and probably ditto web servers as well.

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