I’ve been watching the Linux news wires lately to see whether I should be putting any time into Mono and it looks to me like Linux is falling victim to the Unix disease of splintering into too many distributions that may or may not be compatible. Here’s what I am reading:
None of these stories are very damning on their own, but I am seeing a trend towards many conflicting distributions for specific needs. Imagine an enterprise where you would need four or five different distro’s to support. Windows three tier OS (Home/Professional/Server) seems to be easier to manage (one company, one support contract, etc.)
I do not want to see Linux marginalized. Linux is putting pressure on Microsoft to clean up its own house and competition forces increased innovation. Now if Sun would just stop trying to stop Java from being submitted to the standards bodies we could get somewhere…