“A third of workloads now being deployed on Linux come from Unix, a third from Windows and a third are new installations.”
Scott Handy
“Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them,”
Dean Stockwell
“This is not at all surprising as Linux is the most popular Unix-type system.”
Konstantin Sapronov
“NonStop is big iron and more geared to larger operators. Linux and Unix platforms scale down much better, and operators often prefer them because they are not knowledgeable about NonStop.”
Tom Massey
“There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.”
Jeremy S. Anderson
“While Sun has held its own in Unix servers in our recent surveys, we believe that Unix market revenues are unlikely to grow materially going forward, and accordingly, that Sun will need to improve its (x86)-based share in order to generate meaningful revenue growth.”
Toni Sacconaghi
“Eighteen months ago, seven times out of 10, the short list for these large Unix environments was typically between HP and Sun. In the last six months, that has dramatically shifted to putting IBM much more frequently on that short list.”
Brad Day