Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Mar 2006 01:00 UTC, submitted by Not_My_Real_Name
The director of platform strategy at Microsoft, Bill Hilf has lead the Linux and open source software technology group at Redmond for the past two years and formerly headed the global Linux technical strategy of IBM. He says reliability and predicability are the key factors which give Microsoft's software the edge over Linux and open source alternatives.
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2005-09-10
We do more or less the same thing - Linux for computational biology and it really is great. Now, our solution built gradually from fairly disparate generic PC x86 hardware running openMosix, MPI and PVM and a lot of network services at the same time DO actually kernel panic pretty ugly from time to time. Still, it is better that chewing your arms and legs off... oh sorry, I meant running Microsoft.