Originally from: http://readwrite.jp/archives/9977
No matter how powerful an enterprise is, it does not exist to compete with the open source community.
Ten years ago, Unix accounted for the fastest computer world in the top 10, five seats, and 44% of the supercomputer market. How's it going now? In the past, UNIX, with its hard-to-handle status, has replaced its location with Linux, not to mention the top 10 of the world's fastest computers, or the top 50, which has no Unix shadow.
community: Hidden Performance Booster
People are not always aware of the effectiveness of the community. In 1999, Sun's chief executive, Scott Makuneri, made the following attacks on Linux performance.
"Linux, like the Windows operating system, is too large to be used on devices or clients and is not sufficiently extensible on the server." I don't understand why people continue to pay for ms,linux from all over the world.
We can't say he didn't have the foresight to, in 1999, Linux was not the world's fastest ranked 500, Sun Solaris performance is far ahead of Linux.
However, Sun Solaris is not able to overcome the Linux community.
Sun's history has many innovations to boast about, but just as a company no matter how great you are, you're just a company. Today, no company has enough engineers with a lot of experience to implement a large technical architecture.
Now, Linux already occupies the world's top 500 supercomputers with only 2% 97%,unix (not including Solaris).
Active?? Community activities bring a lot of advantages to open source projects.
1. It's good to use open source projects
2. It's safe to use open source projects
3. Using open source projects can create more markets
4. The results of using open source projects are better than competitors
The community not only reduces the risk of problems caused by the closed source, but also enriches the technical information on StackOverflow and GitHub. The increase in the number of developers associated with open source technology has increased the market penetration of open source technology. This has facilitated the formation of third-party communities, which is an eternal cycle. This is not done within a company.
Performance issues are also more easily addressed as the number of associated projects increases. such as Linux by REDHAT,IBM, HP and Oracle, and even Sun's attention to the performance has been rapidly improved. They have made improvements to the Linux contribution code for a variety of reasons. As a result, Linux has not only increased functionality, but also improved performance. Performance issues are also more easily addressed as the number of associated projects increases. such as Linux by REDHAT,IBM, HP and Oracle, and even Sun's attention to the performance has been rapidly improved. They have made improvements to the Linux contribution code for a variety of reasons. As a result, Linux has not only increased functionality, but also improved performance.
betting on the development of the 2014 CommunityThat's why I'm optimistic about open source projects like OpenStack and Hadoop, and other open source projects. Performance and future potential, and so on, the problems that Linux has experienced over the past more than 10 years are still there. But it is only a matter of time before the attention of the community is concentrated.
There are, of course, examples of bad progress. For example, because of the lack of leadership in OpenStack, the cloud community stumbled into the market. But if you can solve the leadership problem, an active OpenStack community will support its continued development.
