Re: Disabling optimization

[Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> All the HP-UX sysadmins I've encountered disagree with you on both
> points (although 'dominant OSs of choice for <arbitrary undefined
> group>' can mean just about anything). They generally only use it
> because either (a) they can't afford a hardware upgrade, or (b) they
> have some weird proprietary application that won't run on anything
> else.

When I say "dominant OS of choice" what I mean that in terms of 
dollars spent on new and existing systems, last year more money was 
spent on systems that run HP-UX than all Linux systems combined. 
This is the nature of the big-iron Unix market. 5% of the systems 
consume over 90% of all dollars spent on Unix-related systems.

You should be happy that these systems bring in big money since they 
confirm that if Linux stays on its current path, eventually Linux will 
be the OS of choice on big-iron systems (IBM is a major promoter of 
this).

I am happy to know that software I support is used on million dollar 
systems as well as PCs.  It is one of the joys of open systems.

Bob
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