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The Penguin That Ate Microsoft | |
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| Time: 10:31 EST/15:31 GMT | News Source: Washington Post | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft's Windows operating system runs on more than 90 percent of the world's computers, a market share that many believe is so overwhelming that no other company can ever hope to challenge it. But maybe a little penguin with roots in Scandinavia is about to do the unthinkable. The Linux open-source operating system, appears to be winning over a critical mass of corporate customers that could ultimately spill over into the broader consumer technology market. | ||
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| #1 By 7797 (63.76.44.81) at 5/27/2004 12:01:40 PM |
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"Linux: 1% market share and holding steady for 4 years."
Yawn! This has been debunked so many times already i can't believe you continue to bring this up. |
| #2 By 1474 (160.125.216.88) at 5/27/2004 12:11:01 PM |
| Engineered, cable, and installed a complete Linux network next to a windows 2000 - the client requested I remove the installation 90 later and install windows 2003/xp and upgrade the windows 2000 domain. Why ? This notion that if they use it there, they will use it here - didn't work for Apple when they placed Apple computers in schools. Why Windows - because it works, looks good and have you notice some of those Linux program names ?? |
| #3 By 19992 (164.214.4.61) at 5/27/2004 1:14:55 PM |
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Off topic.
For anyone that recalls the story posted here a while ago (couple of weeks) about a 'new' Office Suite. Flexbeta now has a comparative review of ElOffice 2004 vs. MS Office 2003. Actual review may be found here http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=62 |
| #4 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 5/27/2004 1:16:26 PM |
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The company that I work for encourages volunteer work. So, instead of handing out food at the local food co-op, I volunteered to help a non-profit replace their complete computing capability. Scanning the horizon for a least cost, maximum benefit solution, the answer was simple: Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition. This is the most powerful easiest to use least cost package on the market today for a small business of less than 75 people. It includes Windows Server 2003, Windows Share Point Services, Exchange Server 2003, Office Outlook 20003, Shared Fax Service, Routing and Remote Access Service, SQL Server 2000, ISA Server 2000, and Office Front Page 2003.
The result was an unqualified success. There is just is no other vendor that offers a better "all-in-one" package for small business. And, a very important side benefit, is that the office manager is able to administrator SBS with virtually no help from a "techie." Microsoft has made this product that simple. Meanwhile, we see we have the *unix hype machine rolling along . . . lol By the way, that company I work for is one of the largest in the United States. Here, the number of *unix servers has shrunk every year in the last three years. The only servers that are using Linux are all-in-one vendor solutions like Symantec's firewall and ISS' intrusion detection server offerings. We have zero production applications running on top of any Linux distribution. My counterparts in a company that is "next door" and larger than ours verifies the above. They only see *unix servers shrinking at their company as well. But, heck don't take my word for it. Look at the percentage of servers using Windows as reported by IDS over the last 3 years. Microsoft's percentage of the total installed base has grown year over year and they now have about a 55% share. Also, look at both the annual and quarterly reports coming out of Redmond. They show a growing profitability in this area year after year. I'll say one thing for the OSS "movement." It sure has brought down the salaries we are paying for programmers! It wasn't too many years ago we were paying our programmers a bonus to find other programmers! Now, with the exception of .Net programmers, we are turning away resume after resume. When we do hire it is first on a contract basis and then, after the programmer has proven him or herself that they are offerred a full time position. |
| #5 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at 5/28/2004 12:17:43 AM |
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OH NO! Linux is going to overtake Windows again! All this after Linux has overtaken Windows the previous 4 or 5 years we've been hearing this!
What ever shall we do this time? What about next year when it's going to overtake Windows Real Soon Now? |
| #6 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 5/28/2004 12:48:04 AM |
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stonthcrow, a perfect replica of the article posted today and the one yesterday and the one before that, ad nasuem. Its always, "they are in the process of revaluating the OS platform . . ."
Hey, I'll make judgements for the rest of the world anytime I fell like it, buster! |
| #7 By 1643 (204.210.30.241) at 6/1/2004 4:00:23 AM |
| Of course they have marketing...IBM, Oracle, Sun (maybe less now), and all those linux zealots that sit on ZDN Talkback. |
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