On 2018-11-06 13:41:45 Michael wrote:
On Tuesday 06 November 2018 11:55:34 am
andre_debian(a)numericable.fr wrote:
On Friday
02 November 2018 03:55:53 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > Is it a good new ?
> > > Can this new make reviving Linux in the public market,
> > > or only in the professional cloud market ?
> >
> > Best question of the year :
The discussion about Linux to reach ~10% market shares and more,
for home computers in the world some month ago,
was that companies as RedHat and IBM, proposes an "easy" Linux.
Recently, this wish is on the success road, IBM bought RedHat.
Now, hope that IBM will materialize a good Linux system,
able to be used by every one and not only a cloud Linux...
"Easy Linux"
That’s pretty much the only thing that will ever increase *nix’s market
share beyond the 2-10% it is now in the ‘home user’ demographic.
‘Cause let’s face it, if you’re asking ‘Mom’ to make decisions on partition
structure or “ssh server” during the install, you’ve lost the entire ‘home
user’ demographic...
As to IBM buying RH? IBM’s one of the odder multi-national conglomerates.
They have been known to support ‘stuff’ for the good of mankind (or at
least IT-kind). But, they also do weirdness like selling their notebook
and x86 server lines to Chinese Lenovo, which completely destroyed their
“one stop shop” / “soup to nuts” capabilities.
IBM's attitude toward Linux is
very much contrary to that of the rest of
their product line. I keep hoping that they will some day release a
back-level version of their Mainframe VM OS for use by hobbyists; that would
be a boon to their efforts to stem the tide of migration off their
proprietary platform, but they don't seem to recognize the power of
familiarizing potential users with their proprietary products.
Hopefully, as mentioned earlier, IBM will dissemble systemd, as they pretty
much do understand the concept of ‘up time,’ but... Given they didn’t
listen to their sales exec’s on the x86 stuff, who knows?
Michael