Accounting Vendors Block Linux Server Use
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| We all know Microsoft views Linux as a serious threat and will do just
| about anything to discourage its use. But why would application vendors
| who actually face competition from Microsoft help it out in this
| regard? That's what one reader was wondering after discovering that
| his customers could no longer use a Linux server with their favorite
| accounting packages.
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| The reader believes that Microsoft is behind this. "I think this is a
| calculated move by Microsoft to stop Linux's increasing market share
| in the server market, and help increase their own," the reader wrote.
| "I think the developers are enabling this behavior, and in fact may
| be called co-conspirators in assisting Microsoft in their attacks
| against non-Windows server systems. I find this outrageous behavior
| by the developers and have already informed them of my and my
| clients' displeasure in forcing them to make outlays for something
| they didn't need, for server software they didn't want, and for
| the additional outlays that lay for my clients in the future.
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| [...]
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| Is this one more Redmond conspiracy against Linux, or is something
| else going on here? No doubt Microsoft is delighted with the way
| this works out, but what I don't understand is why Intuit and Sage
| would both go along with it. Why would two major application vendors,
| who compete against each other and also face a threat from Microsoft
| in that space, restrict their customers' choices to the benefit
| of Redmond?
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