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The War Is Over, and Linux Has Won
xtaski writes "Dana Blankenhorn bluntly states a reality that many have known: 'The war is over and Linux won'. With Oracle and Microsoft putting Linux in the spotlight and positioning themselves to grow with Linux. 'A new report shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux against 23% for Windows. ... Over two-thirds of the respondents said they will increase their use of Linux in the next year, and almost no one said the opposite.'"
Polite to bring of BSD/OS. A mod poi[nts and they are Come
why has linux gone from minimal system requirements to a 400MHz processor with 512ram like fedora core? Xen is pretty exciting technology, but to require 256 megs of ram per virtual machine it appears limited. vitualization will help spur upgrades and virtual appliances will make the internet more interesting, but i'm still waiting for a complete embedded linux distribution with Xen for that. I'd like to see isp's buying mega machines and lease my virutalized desktop/server from them via vnc, where i can run an embedded appliance at home to connect. the conuser pc market is crap, but it's nice to see intel open source their 3d drivers, as they've got to do something to help spur adoption in this fizzling end of lifetime pc market.
"Once people in the govment figure out they need to shell out money to update, it will be a painless transition to linux."
Doubtful.... something like 50% of M$ revenue comes from the U.S. government. M$ isn't going to make software that their largest customer won't buy.