Unix

A new study on the major players in the Unix server market has declared IBM the clear customer favorite and brought to light some serious issues with Sun Microsystems' product line. Most alarmingly for Sun, the company appears to have lost its cachet as the dominant Unix player and done so while alienating customers. Sun finished last in almost every one of the Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG) survey's categories, spanning technology performance, customer satisfaction and software tools.

The survey polled 197 corporate Unix customers with particular attention paid to the opinions of administrators as opposed to the CIOs in their ivory towers. "We have found that people on the data center floor have a much better idea of what works well (and not so well) in their infrastructure and are generally not shy about expressing their views – both positive and negative,"

I wonder if the "Gabriel Consulting Group" also determined whether or not the "administrators" completely suck at thier jobs. I wonder if they even tried to determine whether or not the survey respondents were actually admins.

I'm just saying. If you survey a bunch of junkies about thier favorite health food, you can publish a report trumpeting the health benefits of methadone.

I'm just sayin.