[Gllug] Veritas for Linux

[tet at accucard.com]

>> it's just a matter of time. I'd say they have several years yet,
>> but ultimately, they will have no market left to sell to, in the
>> same way that there is no longer any sizeable market for commercial
>> Unix on x86.
>> 
>Owch. Ooyah.
>You DO know who Simon (and Richard) used to work for?

Yes, I do :-) But the fact is that there *isn't* any sizeable x86
market for commercial Unix, and for the same reasons, I can't see
there being any sizeable market for commercial Linux filesytems or
volume management a few years down the road.

Sorry Simon, Mark et. al...

Tet

PS. FWIW, I think Veritas missed the boat here. They could have been
    first in the market, and made a killing at a time when Linux didn't
    even have a journalling FS, let alone volume management. But once
    again, short sighted management will have prevented them from
    doing so, and now Linux has both (albeit immature compated to the
    Veritas equivalents)

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