I really don't think it's going to fade away anytime soon. The rate at
which features are being added is staggering in comparison to MPE. Plus
if you look at it from an economic side, how long can companies continue
to poor money into there proprietary unixes when linux/netbsd/freebsd
can handle most of the same tasks at a lower cost. The proprietary
unixes and OS's where used as a way of differentiating systems, the
advantages are quickly disappearing. The vendors need to find new ways
to differentiate their products.

At the moment I'm loving open source. We have a large database that
stores copies of invoices and electronic customer signatures. The system
uses postgresql, php, and apache on linux. I hit a bug in pg_restore
that caused a memory leak when restoring blobs. I put a message out on
one of the postgresql mailing list Monday afternoon. I ended up
e-mailing back and forth yesterday with one of the maintainers of
postgresql, he found the problem, fixed it, committed the changes to the
CVS. I downloaded the nightly tarball the morning, compiled it, and the
memory leaks appears to be gone. How many times have you gotten a bug
fixed in MPE or it's subsystems in under 48 hours?

-Lane

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