It's a really good idea. I have a real example. My wife is working in the web development (php/xml/javascript/sql(mysql)) and uses m$ windows, but CEO in her company said "we're need to migrate to the open source software" and she migrated to it.
In the past she has a problems in using linux (ubuntu with gnome) home, but now with the similar products on the job and home she works normally both in the home on linux and in the office on win. And now she thinks to delete windows from office desktop and install ubuntu;)
I think that for users the main difference in OS is the applications, not OS itself.
PS Sorry for my english.
Sorry for my strange english, but I want to tell some information about how russian programmers works.
The first that you need in Russia it's education, BUT on the same deal the russian university can give you a good mathematical skills, but it's no good computer science education. In example, many university uses dos with Turbo Pascal/Watcom C, or more... they uses... Borland Deplhi on the win32 platform. And it's terrible.
In the Russia if you want to be a good developer you *must* start working at university, and have a much self education.
On the last year I was on the many interviews and I've listen the candidates for junior/senior developer position, and I can tell you that people with the long education stage on the university are BAD, they can't use mathematical skills to implement something, but people who hasn't university education does, they known mathematics and can use there skills.
The other moment in the Russia - the most of developers in Russia thinking about migration to the Europe or USA, because the Russia is terrible country for his family - there are no warrantly for his wife or children from goverment.
The "another silicon valley" is a "another people wants money" action. In the future the most of kind russian people will be migrate from Russia and Russia will be a stupid country that extracts oil and killing forests.
PS yet another sorry for my strange english.
There are two things how I think,
The first, Microsoft wants to take whole market and kill *nixes on it. In example, customers will take a SuSe Linux instead of other solutions and when the time is coming - micro$oft will bought a Novell and closing the projects. And... yep, all is ready.
The second, Microsoft wants to port and get working their products on the linuxes, and for one or two years we will be looking for the microsoft products running on the linux boxes ones.
Or.... it's just a stupid step for killing yet another commerical linux vendor.
PS Sorry for my terrible english.
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It's a really good idea. I have a real example. My wife is working in the web development (php/xml/javascript/sql(mysql)) and uses m$ windows, but CEO in her company said "we're need to migrate to the open source software" and she migrated to it. In the past she has a problems in using linux (ubuntu with gnome) home, but now with the similar products on the job and home she works normally both in the home on linux and in the office on win. And now she thinks to delete windows from office desktop and install ubuntu ;)
I think that for users the main difference in OS is the applications, not OS itself.
PS Sorry for my english.
Sorry for my strange english, but I want to tell some information about how russian programmers works. The first that you need in Russia it's education, BUT on the same deal the russian university can give you a good mathematical skills, but it's no good computer science education. In example, many university uses dos with Turbo Pascal/Watcom C, or more ... they uses ... Borland Deplhi on the win32 platform. And it's terrible.
In the Russia if you want to be a good developer you *must* start working at university, and have a much self education.
On the last year I was on the many interviews and I've listen the candidates for junior/senior developer position, and I can tell you that people with the long education stage on the university are BAD, they can't use mathematical skills to implement something, but people who hasn't university education does, they known mathematics and can use there skills.
The other moment in the Russia - the most of developers in Russia thinking about migration to the Europe or USA, because the Russia is terrible country for his family - there are no warrantly for his wife or children from goverment.
The "another silicon valley" is a "another people wants money" action. In the future the most of kind russian people will be migrate from Russia and Russia will be a stupid country that extracts oil and killing forests.
PS yet another sorry for my strange english.
There are two things how I think, The first, Microsoft wants to take whole market and kill *nixes on it. In example, customers will take a SuSe Linux instead of other solutions and when the time is coming - micro$oft will bought a Novell and closing the projects. And ... yep, all is ready.
The second, Microsoft wants to port and get working their products on the linuxes, and for one or two years we will be looking for the microsoft products running on the linux boxes ones.
Or .... it's just a stupid step for killing yet another commerical linux vendor.
PS Sorry for my terrible english.