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Microsoft to Storm Linux Strongholds
VitaminB52 writes "Microsoft is only winning about one out of four deals where IT shops are trying to move off of proprietary Unix. To turn that trend around, there are four specific Linux strongholds where Microsoft is focusing its attention." From the article: "After discussing server clustering, Web hosting, and server appliances, Ballmer was cut off by the interviewees before he could identify the fourth. But my guess is that, given the way Ballmer emphasized Software as a Service (SaaS) as a core theme for all the work that's taking place at Microsoft right now, the fourth stronghold of Linux that Microsoft wants is the SaaS stronghold where Linux is the operating system behind a Java-based application server technology ... Ballmer knows he's got a long roe to hoe. 'The day I come in front of the Gartner audience and say we have a better Unix than Linux, that'll be a good day.'"
Why does the title give me a mental image of the scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where King Arthur and co are trying to get into the Castle... Except it's microsoft execs being taunted by penguins. I really need some more coffee.
Meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow...
...is Ballmer hoeing fish eggs???
No wonder he gets angry!
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"Hey, don't switch just yet! Just hold on a few more years, and we'll provide something like what you want! No, really! Please don't forget about us!"
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
A Unix admin can't take humiliation by jumping off from Unix to Windoss! Linux makes better sense to them than windows anyday!
Scott McNealy to Michael: "Suck my Sun!" Michael Dell to Scott : "Lick my Dell!"
Gates: Hallo! Hallo!
Mandriva: 'Allo! Who is it?
G: It is King Bill, and these are the Programers of the Square Table. Who's castle is this?
M: This is the castle of my master, Guy de Linus!
G: Go and tell your master that I have charged myself with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night he can join us in our quest for the Holy OS.
M: Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen... Uh, he's already got one, you see?
G: What?
Balmer: He says they've already got one!
G: Are you sure he's got one?
M: Oh, yes, it's very nice-a (I told him we already got one)
G: Well, um, can we come up and have a look?
M: Of course not! You are Windows types-a!
G: Well, what are you then?
M: I'm Linux! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king!
B: What are you doing in our computers?
M: Mind your own business!
G: If you will not show us the OS, we shall take your castle by force!
M: You don't frighten us, Windows pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Bill-king, you and all your silly Windows kaniggets. Thppppt!
B: What a strange person.
G: Now look here, my good man!
M: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction! You mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
B: Is there someone else up there we could talk to?
M: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a!
Just a couple of days ago I was talking to a senior IT person explaining the advantages of a particular web server configuration. I went to demonstrate something on a terminal monitor, and the guy started laughing said "What, it doesn't have a Windows interface? And you're trying to tell me that this is advanced server technology? We're not going to use primitive Unix systems here. We're a state of the art Microsoft shop. You've got to admire Bill Gates, haven't you? You Unix guys crack me up..." and carried on like that for about half an hour. I didn't say anything and decided to just forget ever talking to this guy again.
:)
Next time you see him, please take a postit note, write with big letters "-1, Troll", and staple it to his head
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
Like, y'know, http://www.theosfiles.com/os_linux/ospg_Linux_stro m.htm ?
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Microsoft might use synergy!
"What, it doesn't have a Windows interface? And you're trying to tell me that this is advanced server technology?"
The appropriate response is to laugh and say "Good one, sir!"
...Is this memorable quote from TFA:
;-)
"...Ballmer responded to a question about how Microsoft plans to deal with the remaining 75 percent by saying "We are not winning more than we're losing."
Eeeshhh... Balmy needs to go to work writing for the Firesign Theater. Grammatical talent like that doesn't just (g)roe on trees.
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
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