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[News] Move from UNIX to GNU/Linux Seen as Natural, Same with Windows to Linux

  • Subject: [News] Move from UNIX to GNU/Linux Seen as Natural, Same with Windows to Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:16:31 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Bridging the Linux Gap for Windows Admins

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| "A lot of enterprises have moved to Linux because they're moving off Unix and 
| they find Linux lets them maintain their skills but move to lower-cost 
| hardware -- x86 boxes instead of Sun or HP Unix boxes," said open source 
| expert Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica. "HP's philosophy is, 'if you're going 
| to move off Unix boxes, why don't you stay in the family and move to an HP 
| Linux box?'"     
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http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/62027.html?welcome=1205030100


Days ago:

Ballmer's Remarks Inspire A TCO Trip Down Memory Lane

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| The email surfaced in early 2007, while Microsoft was embroiled in an Iowa 
| class-action lawsuit over alleged monopoly-pricing practices. (The company 
| settled the lawsuit in February, 2007 for $179 million.) According to the 
| email -- part of a slew of subpoenaed documents Microsoft would have 
| preferred to keep to itself -- at least one company official argued that it 
| would be "easier" not to own up to sponsoring the IDC study.     
|                                                   ^^^^^^^^^
| The Microsoft exec, Kevin Johnson, now the head of Microsoft's Windows 
| product team, wrote that he was concerned about competitors turning 
| Microsoft's sponsorship of the study to their own advantage. Oddly enough, 
| however, Johnson focused on the fact that the IDC study picked Windows as the 
|                                               ^^^^^^^^^
| TCO champ in only four out of five outlined business scenarios.     
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/ballmers_remark.html


Linux clocks double-digit growth. Fear and loathing in Redmond

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| IDC is reporting that Windows server growth hit 6.9 percent in Q4 2007, 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| bringing it to 36.6 percent market share. Linux trounced Windows' growth at 
|                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 11.6 percent to hit 12.7 percent market share. Microsoft owns the market, but 
| Linux owns the future.   
| 
| Therein lies the rub of the tale behind much of Microsoft's fear and loathing 
| of open source. 
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9886843-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad

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