Reputable software companies such as Microsoft are threatened by Unix and you know it. Linux & Unix will develop a stronger hold on the server market as some important factors come into play - admins become more educated. About uptime, about availability, about scalability & most important about LICENSING. Sure, the Unix name may be tarnished by some IP wrangling now, but in the long term, companies are willing to put up with a "mess of standards" to achieve technical superiority in the server space. Desktop markets are different because they are driven by idiot consumer trends. But we're talking about the all-important corporate/server market here folks. That's what matters and Microsoft knows it. And they're slowly being beaten back to the desktop/consumer market.
And I don't know how you can honestly stand there and say XP has no baggage from the 70's without laughing when it still runs 16 bit DOS stuff. Guffaw!!
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Reputable software companies such as Microsoft are threatened by Unix and you know it. Linux & Unix will develop a stronger hold on the server market as some important factors come into play - admins become more educated. About uptime, about availability, about scalability & most important about LICENSING. Sure, the Unix name may be tarnished by some IP wrangling now, but in the long term, companies are willing to put up with a "mess of standards" to achieve technical superiority in the server space. Desktop markets are different because they are driven by idiot consumer trends. But we're talking about the all-important corporate/server market here folks. That's what matters and Microsoft knows it. And they're slowly being beaten back to the desktop/consumer market. And I don't know how you can honestly stand there and say XP has no baggage from the 70's without laughing when it still runs 16 bit DOS stuff. Guffaw!!