[RayChuang88]

I think what is helping Microsoft is that Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 are very nice server operating systems even with the fairly substantial licensing costs.

Linux is primarily used in environments where high data output are necessary such as supercomputing environments and in trafficking of Internet data.

[N3WBI3]

I think what is helping Microsoft is that Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 are very nice server operating systems even with the fairly substantial licensing costs.

To some degree but what is really helping them is teh EOL of NT. People are skipping right over 2k and going to 2k3 to replace their old NT4 systems..

[tortoise]

Linux is primarily used in environments where high data output are necessary such as supercomputing environments and in trafficking of Internet data.

These days, it is used for just about everything on the server side. At the telecom I work for, everything is Linux on the back-end. That said, Exchange Server is the killer app that keeps selling Windows Server licenses. If a potent replacement is developed for Linux, and such work is being done, that would knock down the last barriers at most of the big companies I know.