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Haiku OS and its Niche.
Martin Iturbide:
Today I was reading Haiku OS efforts to find a niche are working.
They are now being included as a "Radio Automation Software" called "Command Center":
http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/about_haiku.html
We can debate if it is a good niche or not, but I found it very interesting to see how an OS (that was in a worst position than OS/2 and that never really got a huge market) is fighting to became adopted.
Today OS/2's niche are the companies that has a "Legacy OS/2 Application" and that to migrate away from OS/2 will cost more than buying eCS. But that niche is only temporary, we need to find new niches for this platform. But it is hard to compete with other platforms like Windows, that has a huge marketplace, and with Linux and other open source OSes that has the added-value to do not depend on a single vendor.
If today someone invest on a "solution" that runs on eCS people will ask about... What about the OS? Who is developing it? I understand that IBM is not maintaining it...Who has the source code? ... those all are logical/rational/realistic questions, and are a blocker when you want to create a solution for OS/2 to find a new niche. You don't want to put your business to run on a OS that if something breaks you don't have the source code to fix it and the one who has the source code no longer mains it.
I still insist that open sourcing OS/2 (cloning it) will allows us to do more. It will give us more users that want to experiment with the platform and eventually we will get business solutions to get into niche. If we wait to clone OS/2 after all the "legacy corporate" customers migrate to other platform it will be even harder to accomplish it. Today it is required not to only port more OSS to OS/2-eCS, but also to start thinking on the things that are inside the hood.
When people says it will be impossible to clone OS/2, I ask them to check ReactOS and Haiku OS, they are doing a very interesting progress on their own.
Regards
Sergey Posokhov:
FireBee could be another example. And AROS too.
Martin Iturbide:
- MenuetOS - GNU GPL - last update: 07.04.2015 0.99.96
- KolibriOS - ( MenuetOS Fork) GNU GPL - last update: 5 apr 2015
...and notice that I'm just checking non-linux based OSes.
Why those OSes which has less software, less corporate customers and less community organization than this plaform, has the will and the muscle to develop an open source OS and we don't? Where is the millionaire sponsoring them? Did they stole a bank? Why they don't say that it is imposible to make an OS with their hands? Where is the magic? Where is the trick?
Sergey Posokhov:
Kolibri is a project maintained by Russian developers to keep their CVs up to date. I know them and I know that there's no forces to sponsor them. Moreover, there is no demand in Russia for such software developers at all, because in oil- and gas-driven economy very few people needs software; it is easier to hire two specially trained monkeys. The OS itself is a mess of assembly code with jump operators and global variables, it is obviously a demo project to sell some services (for example, to police or military forces - they would like to harness them, promising "career growth" in the "future"... and maybe, even air conditioner in office space).
Sergey Posokhov:
Kolibri is a project maintained by Russian developers to keep their CVs up to date. I know them and I know that there's no forces to sponsor them. Moreover, there is no demand in Russia for such software developers at all, because in oil- and gas-driven economy very few people needs software; it is easier to hire two specially trained monkeys. The OS itself is a mess of assembly code with jump operators and global variables, it is obviously a demo project to sell some services (for example, to police or military forces - they would like to harness them, promising "career growth" in the "future"... and maybe, even air conditioner in the office).
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