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The war is over and Linux won
ZDnet ^
| November 9, 2006
| Dana Blankenhorn
Posted on 11/12/2006 4:42:14 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
The truth of the assertion is in a chart near the back of the report. It shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux next year, against 23% for Windows. The move is slower for larger enterprises, but the direction is clear.
At least in the server world, Linux has won.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: gebait; growth; linux; microsoft
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Kind of makes you wonder what the latest MS-sponsored study says.
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
11/12/2006 4:46:09 PM PST
by
KoRn
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Wow, what a stupid headline. Is it law that one of these silly articles has to come out every year?
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posted on
11/12/2006 4:48:22 PM PST
by
Doohickey
(I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
To: Doohickey
Every time MS is declared dead, it's stock seems to go up. Probably just California dreaming....
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posted on
11/12/2006 4:51:52 PM PST
by
PatrickF4
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I expect Microsoft to come out with a "WindeX" version soon, then sue the makers of the glass cleaner to force a change in that name. Probably after that they will assert than anything ending in "X" will violate their copyright, to include the cartoon characters Asterix, Obelix, Getafix, Vitalstatistix, and Dogmatix.
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posted on
11/12/2006 4:52:24 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
To: PatrickF4
Every time MS is declared dead, it's stock seems to go up
MS stock just hit yet another year high on Friday.
And last quarter, the Server division had the highest growth rate, next to the games division, about the 20th straight quarter of double digit growth in the server division. And all that is even before Vista and the New Office ship.
Yup.
/sarc Linux has won alright, and Microsoft is really suffering here. /sarc
To: Doohickey
Wow, what a stupid headline. Is it law that one of these silly articles has to come out every year?
Hey, even the fools have first amendment right too. LOL!
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
It must be a moral victory.
To: PatrickF4
Yet, somehow, the enterprise distros continue to lose market share.
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posted on
11/12/2006 5:26:55 PM PST
by
Doohickey
(I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
To: donmeaker
Heh heh, do you remember Mike Roe Soft?
That thing was everywhere now you can barely find three pages of it on google.
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posted on
11/12/2006 5:35:47 PM PST
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
To: ThomasThomas
LOLOLOLOL....................................
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posted on
11/12/2006 5:36:19 PM PST
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I used to program on an IBM 360/50... in Fortran and Cobol.
We had 32K of Core memory, and joked...Who would ever need that!
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posted on
11/12/2006 5:42:18 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Mike Rowe, soft.
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
11/12/2006 6:44:12 PM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: rzeznikj at stout
Train wreck thread alert....
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posted on
11/12/2006 6:56:23 PM PST
by
MikefromOhio
(Fear the SWEATERVEST!!!!)
To: Doohickey
In the spirit of stupid - a stupid question:
If Linux is loaded onto an operating Windows machine, the resulting arrangement is dual-boot. When the pc is booted into Linux at the boot selection menu, is browsing with the Linux OS - in every way as secure as if, there was no Windows partition?
Or is it still somehow possible for Windows to be exploited?
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Or is it still somehow possible for Windows to be exploited? No. If Windows isn't loaded there is no hint of Windows on the machine when Linux is running. Only if the Winfdows kernel is loaded can Windows vulnerabilities be exploited.
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posted on
11/12/2006 7:53:29 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Mathemeticians are machines that turn coffee into theorems.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
The article doesn't start out as you indicated, it starts out with "A new IBM-sponsored study..." Not that it wasn't obvious BS based on the title alone.
To: donmeaker
Everytime Bill Gates quacks, I hear 'slackware'.
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