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[–] 3 points 11 months ago

And for those, it's pretty clear. Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, AIX... They all were proprietary offerings that strove to lock in users to a specific hardware stack with very high prices.

Linux opened up the competitive field to a much broader set of business concerns, making performance per dollar much more attractive. Also the open source having a great deal of appeal for some of the academic market, a huge participant in the HPC community.

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