Linked by Adam S on Tue 9th Aug 2005 15:15 UTC
At this week's LinuxWorld conference, Microsoft officials are slated to talk up the Services for Unix features that the company is integrating into the Windows Server 2003 R2.
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OS that runs on one kind of equipment, based on a desktop OS not designed *around* multiple user environments and security. Requires add-on patch to interact peacefully with UNIX. Expensive. Outnumbered 8-1 by competition, yet the most hacked server OS out there.
OS with 30 years experience managing multiple users, security and server work, built to open standards. Ported to multiple platforms. Available in commercial and open source versions. Highly scalable.
Clone of above OS, reconfigurable for virtually any purpose, suited to similar tasks, also highly scalable. Ported to every platform with a MMU, and some that don't. Available in commercial and free distributions, with comparable technical support for commercial distros.
Assume I'm a new business with zero prior lock-in on any platform (and managing my finances/email with a desktop box running Windows/Office doesn't count). What, exactly, does Microsoft have to offer me? A preconfigured, loaded Dell server costs the same as an equally configured XServe. My company could test the waters with a Linux box, and if it doesn't scale efficiently, the transition to a FreeBSD box doesn't represent a loss on investment or radical change in infrastructure.
MS makes good Office software. I like it, I use it. They beat WordPerfect fair and square. The rest of their software speaks for itself.