All great news, really

All great news, really

Posted Sep 11, 2006 23:46 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: Windows will beat Linux threat, say academics (TechWorld)

Around year 2000, every time I suggested something should run on Linux, I'd be dismissed straight away by "serious business" folks. These days, I get hired to port strategic, core business applications to Linux or move complete production environments from other OSes to Linux. A lot has changed already.

Duopoly would be an awesome result, IMHO. If I could walk into any computer store and have an "official" choice between Windows and Linux machines, I'd be very happy. But here is the real kicker (quote from the interview):

> We find that the presence of strategic buyers together with Linux's sufficiently strong demand-side learning results in Windows being driven out of the market.

That's why Microsoft has been so active in trying to convince people that adopting an "open source first" policy is a no-no. We can see that in the tech press daily. My bet is that Microsoft either sensed this already or did such research themselves.

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