question about microsoft and linux

[charles crawford]

Heh heh.  Microsoft should drop Windows and expand DOS.  Never happen eh?

-- charlie.


On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Aaron Howell wrote:

> Microsoft did actually try to move Hotmail from Solaris to Windows NT,
> and it died in a horrible way.
> Apparently even they didn't have the hardware required to scale Windows NT to that sort of application.
> Interestingly enough, they then successfully moved from Solaris to FreeBSD on the same Intel hardware.
>
> Another case of the same thing,
> Cisco, after signing a deal with Microsoft, told their employees that Linux was to be removed from all their servers, and that they were to run Windows instead.
> They caused a company wide uproar. Their employees refused to do it, and management was left with a decision of renigging on their deal,
> or having to discipline the entire technical staff.
> Cisco is still running Linux.
> The biggest problem Microsoft faces is that their is no public access to their source code,
> meaning that it doesn't undergo the constant community improvement that opensource operating systems like FreeBSD and Linux do.
> Microsoft's best strategy at this stage would probably be to take the approach of Sun and IBM,
> opensource their operating systems and concentrate on making money of support and bundled packages.
> Though that'll never happen.
> Regards
> Aaron
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:03:00PM -0400, Sunfire wrote:
> > i didnt know if i would get in trouble for asking but a really odd thing i
> > noticed er well i saw it anyways... if microsoft says that their ms windows
> > servers are some if not one of the best ones out there... my question is why
> > are they going against their own theory and using unix/linux for their
> > servers..??
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