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Windows Services For Unix Now Free Of Charge

Posted by timothy on from the making-it-up-in-volume dept.

pole writes "Version 3.5 of Services for Unix will be free. Previously, it was $99. This article at Information Week has the details. It contains an NFS client and server in addition to POSIX libraries and utilities including pthreads. Aside from the NFS utilities, how does the environment compare to Cygwin?" An anonymous reader adds links to coverage at News.com and at geek.com, writing "The reviews for these tools have been highly favorable. It looks like the next volley has been fired in the struggle between Windows and Linux."

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  1. Microsoft motives? by glinden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can you say, "embrace and extend?"

  2. Thank you Microsoft by Mongo222 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a fantastic set of tools for people who are migrating thier windows boxes to a Linux/Unix envirornment. Glad they finally saw the light of day and are working to join us.

  3. This could backfire on MS by SkArcher · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The idea is obviously to encourage migration from Unix to Windows, but it can just as easily be used to encourage migration in the other direction.

    It is to be hoped that such opportunities are taken up by people wishing to get the out of MS lock in in a gradual manner.

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  4. Good Old Econ 101 by stuffedmonkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We are really starting to see the results of constant economic pressure in Microsoft. Once a monopoly has real competition - it is forced to either *gasp* innovate or lower prices! I think in the coming years, All computer users will benefit from Linux - even if they never use it. Windows users will see lower prices and a somewhat friendlier Beast, and Mac users are already getting a ton of great open source product integreted into OS X.

  5. Freedom? by condition-label-red · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how does the environment compare to Cygwin?

    One is licensed under GPL, and the other isn't....

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  6. Re:so lets make this simple by digitalsushi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ah but i use linux because it is simple. hard to learn, simple to use. i quite find windows simple to learn, hard to use, and i fancy the elegance of plain text everything that i get with my linux server.

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