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[News] Windows Vista Convinces More Businesses to Consider GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Windows Vista Convinces More Businesses to Consider GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:49:47 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Will the Vista Migration Path Become the Road Less Traveled?

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| For instance, Meinhart sees an increasing amount of Linux in data centers. 
| Historically, the monopoly is for Windows, he said. He also sees a rapid 
| movement to the Mac in that space, noting that his own company, Kace, is 40 
| percent non-Windows.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Cost is the primary driver in enterprise migration. Linux may have the 
| advantage as a dedicated OS, noted Meinhart. 
| 
| "There is no light version of Windows. Linux doesn't work that way. That's 
| why more modern data centers use Linux. Windows is not really an issue in the 
| migration question," said Uberoi.  
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60585.html


Related:

Dell warns of Vista upgrade challenges

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| Dell has taken the unusual step--for a PC vendor of its size--of 
| toning down its sales pitch for Microsoft's Vista operating system 
| and warning businesses of the migration challenges that lie ahead 
| for them.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62027712,00.htm


Dell casts doubts on Vista

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| Dell today revealed that it will restore the option to use Windows XP on
| some of its home systems, marking a potentially damaging blow to
| Microsoft's hopes for the newer Windows Vista.
| 
| [...]
| 
| While a popular request through the company's IdeaStorm website, the
| choice was substantially outnumbered by requests for pre-installed
| Linux, US-based technical support, and other features -- pointing to a 
| larger general demand for the change. The turnaround may be a reflection of 
| an overall backlash against Vista, observed IDC analyst Richard Shim.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/19/dell.casts.doubts.on.vista/


Microsoft's OEM catch-22: XP still in the driver's seat

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| Much to Microsoft's chagrin, the "must wait for Service Pack 1" meme is also 
| so firmly established that Vista uptake will continue to be soft among 
| businesses for quite some time, certainly into early 2008 when we expect to 
| see Vista's first service pack. Until then, Microsoft will not only have to 
| keep marketing Vista to end users and IT shops, but it's beginning to look 
| like the company will also need to pay increased attention to the happiness 
| of OEMs whose help the company needs steering the S.S. Windows Vista out of 
| the harbor.       
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070708-popularity-of-windows-xp-continues-in-spite-of-vista.html

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