Re:Ask HN: When was it clear that Linux had won (in the data...
by snovymgodym on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:16PM
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Interesting.
So if I understood correctly, at the time you were at some other major company that still had a long tail of commercial Unix, mainframe, and other operating systems in the data center and the fact that a company like Google was able to grow and operate at scale while running nearly everything on x86 Linux advertised to other companies that it could be done?
So if I understood correctly, at the time you were at some other major company that still had a long tail of commercial Unix, mainframe, and other operating systems in the data center and the fact that a company like Google was able to grow and operate at scale while running nearly everything on x86 Linux advertised to other companies that it could be done?