Right, because they aren't currently commodity items. Wouldn't take much, for example, though, to get haproxy to a state where it starts eating F5 lab's lunch. A nicer ui, etc.
It took Linux and commodity servers a while to kill the $100k+/each proprietary unix server market.
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Well, I've seen appliances over $50k a piece ( you need at least two to be useful.) So systems like that are still here.
Right, because they aren't currently commodity items. Wouldn't take much, for example, though, to get haproxy to a state where it starts eating F5 lab's lunch. A nicer ui, etc.
It took Linux and commodity servers a while to kill the $100k+/each proprietary unix server market.