Can Microsoft fight off the Linux invasion? Read more and find out.
In the news lately Microsoft has reportedly cut a deal with long time rival Novell. That’s old news you say. Right, but let’s look a little bit deeper shall we? Why did Microsoft cut a deal with Novell? If you guessed because they’re worried about losing market share to Linux you would be correct.
According to zdnet.com, an IBM-sponsored study on Linux stated that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux next year, versus 23% for Windows. Wow! Those are shocking numbers. What does this mean for Microsoft? Has the software giant finally met it’s match? Will the majority of businesses running Microsoft switch to Linux based operating systems to run their computing infrastructure? Yes. That is the path that many businesses are taking. Microsoft obviously realizes that they have a serious problem and are attempting to take action. It may be too little too late.
Previously I wrote a post about Microsoft Pushing Customers to Linux which focused more on the desktop operating system side and home users rather than business users. I received a lot of pro Linux feedback on that post not surprisingly. That just goes to show that both home and business users of Microsoft products have had enough. Many Microsoft business customers have become fed up with the high cost of licensing fees, security issues and reliability issues to name a few.
Microsoft has apparently neglected increasing competition by Linux and as a result have found themselves scrambling to fight off a looming Linux invasion. (c) 2006 ElectroGeek.com
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Shouldn’t we abandon SUSE?
After the recent fiasco generated by Novell getting into an agreement with Microsoft and the whole Open Source Community planning to fight Novell both in and outside the court, will it be sensible to shift over to another Linux distribution? There are other distributions that are as good or better that SUSE so which will be best one to migrate to?
o2se3tak: No, because that means convining desktop users that the deal is evil. very difficult!! on the other hand, convincing open source developers to change to a lisence that voids the novell-MS deal, and puitting as much stuff under it as possible (especialy the kernel, KDE, GNOME and gcc) would be the best path
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