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No such thing as Linux Lock-in

Actually, Sun would LIKE to make the case but fails. Redhat used to be the default until they decided that they would no longer support a free version and would be focused on the server side; people wanting Red Hats free version are referred to a community driven Fedora project.

This alone caused TONS of Linux enthusiasts to start switching to other distros; Mandrake and SUSE have noted significant increase in sales since RedHat changed their business model.

As for your 'acceptable solution', what is acceptable? This is rather relative and most IT managers base this decision upon a company and products history as well as their experiences with the product. Was code red acceptable? Nimda? SQL Slammer? The list goes on and on. And what about your C# code? It doesn't port and never will; MONO is still in beta and Microsoft has not stated whether they will sue or not. Is this acceptable? Is being locked in to a product acceptable?

You may say yes but let me point you to netcraft.com's web survey where you will see a ton of vendors actually switched to IIS at one point and realized that what they had comprimised and lost was not acceptable.

Still not convinced? Let's go to tiobe.com programing index and take a look at C#. With Microsoft's money, shouldn't that be a much more popular language. Could lack of cross platform portability of code be something that might be unacceptable?

Hw about SQL Server? I worked at a telecom that based it's entire business on it. Crashed daily. Why? Well even though MS calls it enterprise level, it isn't. They switched to Oracle in under a year.

Their history precedes them... and again, IT managers know that just because a fast food place has cornered the market on big macs, doesn't mean that they can make a good phad thai.

So though you may call it acceptable and Microsoft funded reports may say it is acceptable, the stats and adoption of their software on the server side of things does not appear that the industry uses the same definition of the word 'acceptable' as you.

Posted by: poocow666   Posted on: 06/16/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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