Comments on: Linux Starts to Eat Microsoft’s Lunch in Servers

By: Linux Foundation News » Blog Archive » GigaOm: Linux Starts to Eat Microsoft Lunch in Servers

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:06:38 +0000

[...] Matt Asay reports on new data surfaced by The Linux Foundation re: large enterprise adoption of Linux. [...]

By: bumpy

bumpy — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:19:00 +0000

On the contrary, self-selected subjects are suspect. But I agree, I don’t get the impression these subjects are randomly selected.

By: angel mendez

angel mendez — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:23:56 +0000

Well, I’m considering dropping Windows XP from my desktop in favor of a Nintendo Wii. No more dual-boot, plus all that space regained for Linux. My office is moving to Windows 7, so I have Linux and a token ’7 partition. Games are the only reason I have held on to XP at all. I could just get Cedega…

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:30:59 +0000

It is nice to see and about time. Linux is a great system for a system that needs 24/7 365 uptime. All the amazing open source software to go with it makes it even a better choice.

By: ferricoxide

ferricoxide — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:50:35 +0000

On the “good news” front for Microsoft, Oracle’s actions have caused more than a few places to put Solaris on their attrition lists. So, Windows, at least, isn’t having to compete against Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 or even OpenSolaris. Some of this is even spilling into the DB side, as well.

By: Don Marti

Don Marti — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:52:53 +0000

David, since your web site says your company is a “Microsoft Certified Partner” I’m just curious: do any of the open source vendors offer the same level of deals, incentives, and training that MSFT does?

By: Paul Mead

Paul Mead — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:03:40 +0000

David Legg makes a very good point, but I think with the advent of small NAS boxes and web based platforms and open file formats – hopefully the tide is turning and even the smaller companies can start to take advantage – we are certainly trying to take them there when it makes sense.

By: David Legg

David Legg — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:42:50 +0000

I guess what is needed is more smaller companies who can provide Linux support into other smaller companies so that such small players do not automatically assume that they have to buy Windows. The problem is that small companies can get vendor-locked too easily because of their small scale.

By: Don Marti

Don Marti — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:08:26 +0000

If a proprietary vendor did this kind of thing with sending a survey to a hand-picked set of partners, the Linux crowd would be all like “haha FAIL.” Yes, I’m still a Linux fanboy from way back (the first Linux box I installed at a company was a 486) but I don’t see how LF is being helpful here. http://zgp.org/~dmarti/business/hands-up-who-likes-me/

By: Skippy

Skippy — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:19:30 +0000

- “That said, it’s interesting that the original survey included 1,948 respondents, but the Linux Foundation only reports on the largest 387 respondents.”

Gee… they only reported on a nice, even 387 respondents and completely ignored the 1,561 that didn’t give them the answer they were looking for.

Sounds legit to me!