Bake-Off: 4 Linux Desktops Tackle The Enterprise (CRN)

Bake-Off: 4 Linux Desktops Tackle The Enterprise (CRN)

Posted Mar 26, 2007 23:12 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Bake-Off: 4 Linux Desktops Tackle The Enterprise (CRN) by muwlgr
Parent article: Bake-Off: 4 Linux Desktops Tackle The Enterprise (CRN)

Ya he is.

I don't know how true it is, but I read once about one of the main reasons Microsoft was able to trounce Novell for workgroups back when they released Windows 2000 and AD.

So Novell had directory system stuff locked down pretty well in a technical way AND they released it well in advance to Active Directory.

However adoption was slow because going from a flat file server system for workgroup computing to a directory system setup were you not only have C and D drive and such you have OU's and different positions in the directory system to take account of was to much for most people to handle. So most people were happy to stick with their existing Novell servers.

So resellers and such weren't making much money from Novell.

However here comes Windows 2000 and Active Directory, which is the bee's knees according to Microsoft and numerous articles and such.

So all of a sudden those same resellers and such are pushing Windows and Microsoft very hard because they are making huge commisions off of convincing people to drop a huge amount of money in changing their infrastructure from older Novell workgroup servers to the new Windows 2000-based solutions.

So if this story is true then this illistrates is one of those huge problems faced by Linux commercial distributions. The sales folk that are targetting businesses, governments, and educational institutions have a vested interest in convincing their customers to keep Windows, not because it's better, but because it's _more_expensive_. They make money from commisions, not by saving their customers money.

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