Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds (ZDNet)

Posted Oct 20, 2005 19:35 UTC (Thu) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)
Parent article: Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds (ZDNet)

This could have interesting fallout - most compute heavy, clusterable
software is written for Unix type systems. If MS don't come up with
something like Wine but going the other way there won't be much to
actually run on this version of Windows.

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Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds (ZDNet)

Posted Oct 20, 2005 21:28 UTC (Thu) by oseemann (subscriber, #6687) [Link]

Check this: mpi in windows.

Many parallel programs are written using MPI. So in the best case they just have to be re-compiled for windows with a bit of porting effort.