Gartner on open source: fair and insightful (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

NewsForge covers a talk by Gartner Research Vice President Mark Driver at the Gartner Application Development Summit. "He added a word of caution about Mono, however. Microsoft is happy to see Mono and even Java tools today because they protect the company from further charges of monopoly. Driver said it could crush Mono tomorrow with intellectual property warfare if they wanted to do so, but that Microsoft prefers them let them live for now. The killing blow will come from WinFX and the new Vista APIs. He is very pessimistic about Mono being able to maintain its current high degree of compatibility."

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Gartner on open source: fair and insightful (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 15, 2005 1:59 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

I dunno. I can see the market turning any Redmond intellectual property wars, or significant compatibility breaches for WinFX and Vista, into a giant suppository.
Enterprises are just beginning to do significant XP rollouts; such blatant bait-and-switchery could turn the new Redmond offerings into a Son of a Bob.

Gartner on open source: fair and insightful (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 15, 2005 5:54 UTC (Thu) by RMetz (guest, #27939) [Link]

"Enterprises are just beginning to do significant XP rollouts"

Really? Can you back that up? Seems like it's been forever since I've seen a computer running a non-XP Windows OS.

Gartner on open source: fair and insightful (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 15, 2005 17:03 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]

At the place I work, Windows desktop means Win2K. I think NT was replaced win Win2K around 2002. My shiny new laptop also has Win2K, I think. I've only booted into that OS once or twice, so I'm not sure :-)

Bye,NAR

Gartner on open source: fair and insightful (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 15, 2005 19:13 UTC (Thu) by leonscape (guest, #12261) [Link]

Where I am we have about 40 servers, and 400 desptops all running Win2K,
and about 8 machines with XP.

Some of the servers may become Win2k3 servers but there are doubs about
that ( some of which I helped to plant :) ), some servers will becoming
Linux servers. Most will actually stay Win2k for a good while yet.

I've convinced ny bosses in IT about Linux thin clients. Since we already
use Citrix servers for most of the key software, turning the current
hardware into Linux thin clients with Citrix Desktops ( A ThinStation
live CD was invaluable here ) rather than upgrading the hardware to take
XP saves us thousands.

None of the guys I know have had XP rolled out in there workplaces
either. As far as I can tell its very rare, and even the Job adds will
spec Win2K even .net c# but no actual XP.

Gartner on open source: fair and insightful (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 16, 2005 3:01 UTC (Fri) by RMetz (guest, #27939) [Link]

Wow. I had no idea. I guess I'm out of the Windows loop. : )

Gartner on open source: fair and insightful (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 17, 2005 21:39 UTC (Sat) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link]

Amongst our customers (mostly small business) there's roughly a 50-50 mix of 2000 and XP. And yes, there's still some NT4, some DOS, and some SCO Unix as well :-)