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Microsoft's Chief Linux Strategist Interviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

sl0wp0is0n writes "Computerworld has published an interview with Microsoft's chief Linux strategist, Martin Taylor. It's interesting to find out that Microsoft thinks and predicts Novell (SuSE) will be the dominant Linux distribution they'll have to compete against. The interview also has Taylor talking about indemnification, IBM and his realization that customers generally adopt Linux to get a better TCO than Unix, not Windows."

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  1. Apparently part of my post got stripped.... by Keeper · · Score: 0, Redundant

    installing linux on hardware that's on the HCL is trivial and takes half the time of Windows

    You are ON CRACK if you think that installing Linux is trivial. Given the inconsistent, poorly worded, in some cases confusing text presented during Linux distro installs I'll take the XP cd any day of the week.

    Same comment applies to install time ... if you choose a minimal install, it takes very little time to install -- however, you have to take the time and frigging deselect everything that is preselected for you, and then go through the million dialogs saying "xyz depends on this library" and turn a bunch of things back on you way in the negative as far as install time goes. If you choose a default install, be prepared to wait about 4 hours.

    An XP install takes about a half hour.

    Running it, well - it runs itself (especially for a file server, we're not talking about a fancy application server here).

    If you take this view on any server, it WILL get owned eventually.