Comments on: links for 2007-08-31 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/08/31/links-for-2007-08-31/ Dave Neary's view of the world Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:21:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matthew Berg http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/08/31/links-for-2007-08-31/comment-page-1/#comment-860 Matthew Berg Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:23:30 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/08/31/links-for-2007-08-31/#comment-860 It's really hard to take server shipment numbers seriously as a reliable metric of an open source platform's popularity relative to a proprietary one. How many data centers out there do their own installs? I work for a relatively small company and we have hundreds of servers running CentOS. Let's not even mention Google, who purportedly has hundreds of thousands of white box servers running Linux. It’s really hard to take server shipment numbers seriously as a reliable metric of an open source platform’s popularity relative to a proprietary one.

How many data centers out there do their own installs? I work for a relatively small company and we have hundreds of servers running CentOS. Let’s not even mention Google, who purportedly has hundreds of thousands of white box servers running Linux.

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