InformationWeek On Windows-Linux Interoperability

prostoalex writes "InformationWeek magazine has a lengthy article about the issues that enterprises face when vying for Linux+Windows interoperability, as most of the corporate infrastructures are seldom monocultural. What's also interesting is the InformationWeek surveys of the IT professionals. The following questions are asked and the responses to them are nicely graphed: 1) Reasons for choosing Windows, 2) Reasons for choosing Linux, 3) Top Windows concerns, 4) Top Linux concerns, 5) Top interoperability issues."

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Visual Basic

[cyber_rigger]

IMO If Microsoft really wanted to be Linux Friendly

they would port Visual Basic to Linux (not that I am a Visual Basic fan).

Someone else will eventually do this.

Let the flames begin.

In a nutshell, Windows sucks that's why we use it.

[twitter]

What these people are says is "Windows sucks, so we are sticking to Windows." This says it all:

Others include the different skills required of system administrators, incompatible applications, differing management tools, and a lack of cooperation among Microsoft and Linux vendors. ... "Those things are gating factors keeping us from bringing Linux in-house," says Rich Plane, chief technologist for information services at Harris Corp.

... on the matter of interoperability at least, customers pin most of the blame on Microsoft. Almost nine of 10 respondents--88%--say Microsoft hasn't done enough to support Windows-Linux interoperability. Nearly an equal number believe it will be the Linux community that works out the interoperability problems.

So there you have it. M$ loads is crap with barbs so that lazy admins can't just use other software and have it work with M$. Because they never use other software and spend all their time memorizing M$'s forest of tabs and other inconveniece features, they never learn "other" management tools. M$ people, used to "ipconfig" would never try "ifconfig". I don't even want to think about why a right click to "network neighborhood" is where the GUI IP configuration is hidden. The nix world of /etc is so much easier by compairison. It's no wonder M$ admins are to taxed.

The constant chase forces M$ to break it's own implementations, print methods and what not. The net result is that Windoze gets more complex, less stable, and less functional every year. Why do people put up with such shit?

Microsoft is the source of your pain and 9 in 10 people realize it. The sooner you get away from Microsoft, the quicker your life gets easy.