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[Lance Tost]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> A small rant here. You're implicitly drawing conclusions about the OS, 
> based on one application. That's like saying "Linux is worse than 
> Windows XP, because Adobe Photoshop only runs on XP". As you say, "SAP 
> only supports a specific kernel", obviously because they don't want to 
> release their proprietary patches to the community. That's fine, 
> they'll try to lock in their customers as much as possible. But this is 
> not a shortcoming of Linux, it's a vendor-imposed constraint for an 
> application they control.

That's not at all what I'm saying.  I'm re-inforcing the point (that I
made in an earlier post) that mainstream UNIX OS's are still more
appropriate in some situations.  For now, if you run SAP, I think Solaris 
is still a better choice than Linux.

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>