The competition wasn’t between Linux and Windows, but rather Linux with some dedicated server OSes like Solaris, HP-UX and whatnot — mostly variants of Unix, but idk which ones exactly.
P.S. You get much more enjoyment from this thread if you imagine it in one of thick English accents.
And for those, it’s pretty clear. Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, AIX… They all were proprietary offerings that strove to lock in users to a specific hardware stack with very high prices.
Linux opened up the competitive field to a much broader set of business concerns, making performance per dollar much more attractive. Also the open source having a great deal of appeal for some of the academic market, a huge participant in the HPC community.
The competition wasn’t between Linux and Windows, but rather Linux with some dedicated server OSes like Solaris, HP-UX and whatnot — mostly variants of Unix, but idk which ones exactly.
P.S. You get much more enjoyment from this thread if you imagine it in one of thick English accents.
And for those, it’s pretty clear. Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, AIX… They all were proprietary offerings that strove to lock in users to a specific hardware stack with very high prices.
Linux opened up the competitive field to a much broader set of business concerns, making performance per dollar much more attractive. Also the open source having a great deal of appeal for some of the academic market, a huge participant in the HPC community.