Comments on: The Linux Religion . . .vs. Windows (yawn) http://rwandering.net/2007/07/19/the-linux-religion-vs-windows-yawn/ The blogged wandering of Robert W. Anderson Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:40:46 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Robert W. Anderson http://rwandering.net/2007/07/19/the-linux-religion-vs-windows-yawn/comment-page-1/#comment-124780 Robert W. Anderson Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:48:17 +0000 http://rwandering.net/2007/07/19/the-linux-religion-vs-windows-yawn/#comment-124780 Thanks for the comment, John. I agree except for the "*nix will probably just go away in HPC" part. As Windows-based HPC gains momentum, my bet is that *nix will get more focus on usability (and other issues) that currently keep it outside of the classic Windows shops. I don't think there will be just one winner. Many losers yes, but many winners too. It is a big market. Thanks for the comment, John.

I agree except for the “*nix will probably just go away in HPC” part. As Windows-based HPC gains momentum, my bet is that *nix will get more focus on usability (and other issues) that currently keep it outside of the classic Windows shops.

I don’t think there will be just one winner. Many losers yes, but many winners too. It is a big market.

]]> By: John West http://rwandering.net/2007/07/19/the-linux-religion-vs-windows-yawn/comment-page-1/#comment-124776 John West Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:27:55 +0000 http://rwandering.net/2007/07/19/the-linux-religion-vs-windows-yawn/#comment-124776 Yeah, I just wrote about the same topic at insideHPC. Unfortunately, I think for many the decision is already made and their minds will never be changed. This might work out ok for them, since the enterprise HPC crowd rarely mingles with the HPTC crowd and this probably won't change for the 7 years or so it will take enterprise apps to grow to scale. If Microsoft doesn't totally screw this up and can grow CCS as the requirements of its user base grow, then they'll have a bona fide large scale HPC operating system and at that point *nix will probably just go away in HPC; vendors won't be able to ignore the enterprise HPC market (which I think will be at least an order of magnitude larger than technical/scientific HPC) but also probably won't be able to afford to maintain two OS streams. At that point, at $10B market for enterprise (CCS) HPC systems will win. Yeah, I just wrote about the same topic at insideHPC. Unfortunately, I think for many the decision is already made and their minds will never be changed. This might work out ok for them, since the enterprise HPC crowd rarely mingles with the HPTC crowd and this probably won’t change for the 7 years or so it will take enterprise apps to grow to scale.

If Microsoft doesn’t totally screw this up and can grow CCS as the requirements of its user base grow, then they’ll have a bona fide large scale HPC operating system and at that point *nix will probably just go away in HPC; vendors won’t be able to ignore the enterprise HPC market (which I think will be at least an order of magnitude larger than technical/scientific HPC) but also probably won’t be able to afford to maintain two OS streams. At that point, at $10B market for enterprise (CCS) HPC systems will win.

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