Quotes about Unix

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them.

Dean Stockwell

Most organizations have Unix servers installed, and they're prepared to manage Unix systems. The question is whether they're prepared to manage large blocks of Unix clients.

Al Gillen

The work that Microsoft has done to enhance scalability and reliability with the Datacenter edition of Windows 2000 will place the company in more direct competition with Sun and other UNIX players. We are cautiously optimistic that it will provide better scalability and stability than earlier versions of Windows, but the jury is still out on whether it can beat UNIX environments.

David Cearley

There's a lot of folks out there who can now look at OS X and start to think about building their UNIX applications for the operating system.

Ron Okamoto

Windows get more viruses than Macs and UNIX systems, yes, but Macs are not immune. That's just a fundamental design issue in the operating systems.

Robin Anderson

I believe we will see at least one speed bump for POWER chips and probably a bump for SPARC during the course of 2006. In many ways, these chips are harnessed in the Unix systems that are the workhorses of the enterprise infrastructure, where they are running massively large workloads with exacting availability requirements.

Dan Olds

A third of workloads now being deployed on Linux come from Unix, a third from Windows and a third are new installations.

Scott Handy

Providing a Windows solution, especially to a developer audience, is a must-have. There are more and more applications that are specifically written to the Windows platform and I think we are seeing an increasing trend where developers will actually have environments that run on both Windows and Unix.

John Enright

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

[It was this version of Unix that Ritchie and Thompson presented to about 200 people at the Symposium on Operating System Principles in 1973.] This was one of the first 'wow' papers, ... Almost immediately, people started calling up asking if they could get copies of this new operating system.

Peter Salus

The Unix server business is more of a wild card. They're either going to have to gain some market share or accelerate their efforts on the services and software side. But the markets they're going after certainly support that kind of growth.

Kurt King

The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market share is significantly lower than that of Microsoft Windows or the more common UNIX platforms. If this situation was to change, in my opinion, things could be a lot worse on Mac OS X than they currently are on other operating systems.

Neil Archibald

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

Michael Sweet

NDS allows you to get away from the NT vs. NetWare vs. Unix argument and select the operating system that is best suited to each need.

Chris Miller

If you are running Linux as the primary OS and are using the Internet, you are still open to security-based holes that Unix systems have.

Mike Romo

People who have tried to use NT outside of a workgroup environment and seen it fail, have retrenched with Unix, ... [Microsoft's] reality distortion is wearing off, and people are making more informed decisions.

Brian Croll

An agent has to combine investigative skills and technical skills. It's hard to find people in society who can administer UNIX and professionally carry a weapon. And they pay way below market value.

Jim Williams

Overall, the size of the Unix installed base appears to be flattening because of slowing unit volume growth and recent migration efforts within the worldwide Unix installed base. On a unit basis, Windows becomes the top migration platform overall, with 45 percent of these migrating footprints. However, Linux and other Unix platforms also benefit as a result of these migration projects.

Matt Eastwood

The thing we learned with large customers is one size does not fit all. Some want to run on mainframe, Unix, Linux, or Windows. It's hard to get a census of exactly what they want to run on.

Tim Kennedy

It's not as bad as when there were a hundred different companies selling Unix. There are maybe six or eight Linux distributors we all know about. But given the size of the market, even though it's growing quickly, it's not clear that they will all exist three or four years from now.

Bill Claybrook

The whole idea of shared development has been ubiquitous in Unix for years. The Internet has magnified that and open source is bringing collaborative development to a new level.

Doug Michaels

People are exploiting the situation right now. I've seen junior-type Unix administrators asking for $80,000 to $90,000 who we'd offer $65,000 to $70,000 at the most if they were pretty good.

Eric Nelson