sure

Put it another way. With all Microsoft's billions, with all their marketing power, and all their R&D spending, they still can't beat GNU/Linux in the server market, an operating system organised and primarily developed by volunteers. GNU/Linux, along with its cousins the BSDs, holds a market share that just about any non-IT company would envy.

And that's not just be being cheaper. It's by combining cutting-edge technologies with over 40 years of proven Unix heritage. By embracing new technologies: GNU/Linux was first to provide 64-bit computing, first to provide compositing not that servers care about that, lead the market in virtualisation and paravirtualisation, and more. And also by not throwing away tried-and-tested ideas: discrete configuration files not a monolithic and breakable registry, everything can be done by the command line and the command line is highly scriptable, disk drives are like regular files, there is one file structure starting at / which can include local and networked storage, and more.

oh ya, another 'nix fan boy eh...

@mattdvh: notice the word linux in your URL bar

I was in a server closet today that was running several windows file servers. I kind of giggled looking at the work they were doing + money they spent on hardware and thinking how much money they could have saved on hardware and licensing by setting up some simple linux servers on commodity hardware. They were also paying $1500 a month for a T1, so maybe money didn't matter to them. The sys admin (he looked about 23) looked a little confused when he saw my laptop running slackware.

I like Linux because its fun whilst being useful at the same time! M$ I have to pay for both.

Well that's just crazy talk, I mean they obviously didn't research prices or set it up properly. The choice of OS wouldn't have solved anything for them really. That is a user related error.

They were taken in by someone selling something. In the case of the sys admin it was M$ selling him a windows only world. In the case of Dell it was selling them servers because that's what was asked for. In the case of AT&T it was rape plain and simple.

damgar has 999 posts!! Go damgar!!

LOL. Too bad General doesn't count. I'd have more posts logged than Jeremy and all the mods combined! Kind of sad really.

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Originally Posted by mattvdh Well that's just crazy talk, I mean they obviously didn't research prices or set it up properly. The choice of OS wouldn't have solved anything for them really. That is a user related error.

Actually, M$ set the prices in the first place. And since M$ holds a monopoly, they can raise or lower prices at will. Do some research, please.

No wonder smeeze and you get on like a house on fire.

nobody is forcing anybody to buy the products, if the users weren't comfortable using Windows or didn't think they could rely on it, people just simply wouldn't use it.

Its useless talking to someone who just does not want to listen and want to keep arguing. As they say " Never argue with idiots, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with their experience"

I believe the truth is that people are not given an alternative in the majority of the cases nor are they completely informed. Salesmen and saleswomen are not there to give support.
Neither does no one force the companies to install Windows on personal use computers.
Advertising has less to do with performance and more to do with bullshitting.