How Linux Saved Amazon

CNet.com ^ | October 30, 2001, 5:20 p.m. PT | Stephen Shankland, Margaret Kane, and Robert Lemos

[amigatec]

Well I guess Microsoft is starting to lose it's grip again!!

17 Million is a quite a savings, and you don't have to be forced to "upgrade" to XP.

Stick this in your pipe and smoke it Bush2000

[wireplay]

They're talking about servers here. Windows XP is not a server system.

[BillF]

Bump to tech_index.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[ken5050]

FYI, there was an article posted here a few konths ago about some mid-sized city or country in Tennessee ( I think it was) that saved several hundred thousand dollars ANNUALLY in switching to Linux by not having to pay Microsoft's annual licensing charges....Try a search..you may be able to find it..I recall it was a good read...

BTW...guess this means that Bezos and Gates won't be exchanging Christmas cards, or X-mas email, this year....LOL

[wireplay]

Oh yeah, 1 other thing. Amazon switched from Solaris to Linux. Not a big change. Where does the Microsoft bashing come into play? There is nothing that I see that says that Amazon is changing their desktop environment.

[amigatec]

But if Microsoft was so good why did they not go to Microsoft instead??

[amigatec]

They're talking about servers here. Windows XP is not a server system.

But oh yes it is.

[kevkrom]

Windows XP is not a server system.

There are three "flavors" of XP ("Home", "Professional", and "Server"), and latter one is indeed a server system, being the "upgrade" to Windows 2000 server.

[TomServo]

Stick this in your pipe and smoke it Bush2000

If you're gonna call someone down, at least give them the courtesy of doing it to their faces.

[wireplay]

Sorry, that's not correct. On the server side there is only Windows 2000 and its various types. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/Servers/.

[zog]

--quote from above:

"With Linux, customers "end up being in the operating systems business," managing software updates and security patches while making sure the multitude of software packages don't conflict with each other," Miller said. "That's the job of a software vendor like Microsoft."

This is HILARIOUS! Like, companies running NT and outlook express email DON'T have to do this as well, constantly? HAHAHAHA!

Microsoft=used to be a decent company, certainly was a major influence in getting computers to everyone around the world, BUT, now more resembles goliath and the phillistines. Only a matter of time now, they all fall down. Probably take several more years, but it's a-gonna happen.

Anyone remember these devices called "televisions"? They were all primarily built by US companies, they "dominated the market", no other country 'competed' with them. Sooo-prize, what is it now, we're down to one high end model being produced domestically, and all the old standard brands and companies are out of the teevee business? Stuff changes, NOTHING is carved in stone, and with the "bottom line" becoming a more precise and narrowly defined and elusive area to get to for companies, they WILL go cheaper and better.

[amigatec]

Stick this in your pipe and smoke it Bush2000
If you're gonna call someone down, at least give them the courtesy of doing it to their faces.

I sent him a copy of the Post, along with the rest to the "Gates Boys".

[TomServo]

I sent him a copy of the Post, along with the rest to the "Gates Boys".

cool...

[Publius6961]

Stick this in your pipe and smoke it Bush2000

Well, the flying monkeys have some parrot genes in them, evidently.
You mean there are alternatives to "writing your own code if you don't like Microfsoft"? (/sarcasm)

[gore3000]

Companies using Windows have to constantly search for and install "updates" to the crappy code MS puts out. There are constant security "fixes" - after a disaster has occurred (closing the barndoor...).

In the latest PC Magazine John Dvorak drills a new whole in Microsoft on account of their lousy security and states quite plainly do not use outlook.

[js1138]

My only question is this -- if price competition is working, why did the feds spend 10 years trying to make criminals out of Microsoft. Sure, the marketplace takes time, but it always works and the results are always better for the consumer in the long run.

[Mr. Bungle]

Cool news.. go Linux!

[AgThorn]

Interesting news. I posted a related article, IBM Roils Linux Waters as a separate thread.

I do believe that Linux is Microsoft's Achiles Heal ... it may be about to resolve it's Justice Department squabble but this "Linux threat" to it's cash flow is bigger still.

[ez2muz]

The links inside the story do not work. Any chance you can post the addresses to the following (quoted in article):

"revamped"
"announced"
"version 6"

Thanks.