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Linux To Take Over Microsoft In Enterprises

Posted by samzenpus on from the slow-and-steady-wins-the-race dept.

shougyin writes "For years, Linux has enjoyed much of its success as a replacement for Unix. Companies turned to Linux to replace Unix servers, or for new deployments within a Unix-heavy environment. Linux is still king there, but it's starting to encroach on Microsoft as well. Big companies are planning overwhelmingly (76.4%) to add more Linux servers in the next year, and less than half (41.2%) of the companies are planning to add Windows servers in the next year. Even more interesting, nearly half (43.6%) are actively planning to decrease use of Windows servers in the next year."

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  1. News for Nerds: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This week, bogus statistics pushing an increasingly boring anti-microsoft zealotry and a pro-"operating system that takes at least one more step than windows to run any popular application or game" agenda.

    I would expect no less from pseudointellectuals.

  2. /. is almost astroturf by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Troll

    you pretend to be a news site when really your just a den of linux loving commies.

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    If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
  3. Re:ActiveDirectory - the last missing piece by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can't replace AD with Samba 4 and you won't be able to any time soon. The sheer amount of stuff AD does and all the details of doing that stuff right (which AD does pretty well, actually) aren't going to be cranked out by a few (or even a few hundred) open source developers and be stable enough to use in a large enterprise.

  4. Re:I'm a Linux fanboy, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is an "Linux 'world domination' happening next week" on here almost every week.
    They all have the same bias and people jump on the bandwagon.