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Originally Posted by irwjager
Sorry Chris, but that's a patently false statement. Most websites are hosted on Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stacks and various stock exchanges around the world run on Linux. Linux is ubiquitous in datacenters and most of the phones that are sold today run Linux and OpenSource software.
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Sorry Ivo, I'm not referring to mainstream LAMP fare. I thought that'd be obvious. You seem to be under the false assumption that I have it in somehow for open source - and you'd be a long way from the truth. I run my entire business on multiple Centos5 installations running both Apache and Glassfish, MySQL and rather a lot of PHP & JSP application code. I'm talking about the great bulk of smaller projects you find on Sourceforge that I come across that are unstable, unfinished and perpetually undergoing undisciplined change. On the flip side there are a also a great many fabulous projects which commercial operations could learn from. I've been tooling around with Linux and open source since its inception - and prior to that Minix - the original open source Unix-like O/S. I'm not new to this.
I'm not sure why this thread has degenerated into an open source vs. commercial software war. Open source was never mentioned in the opening post. I agree with nearly all of what has been said in its defence - but I'm not sure why it was necessary in the first place. Maybe if we could steer back to the original topic please?