Microsoft's changing tune on Linux
C|Net | at | by Mike
When Linux first appeared on Microsoft's radar a few years ago, senior company executives regularly disparaged the upstart operating system as everything from being a "cancer" to "Pac-Man-like." And that was when they were in a kind mood. But Microsoft's rhetorical offensive boomeranged, drawing even more attention to the open-source movement--exemplified by the Linux operating system and the General Public License (GPL) that governs it.
How much more of a factor in the server market do you think Linux can become?
Linux is not impacting the Windows installed base nearly as much as it's impacting the Unix installed base. There's the Windows paradigm of a comprehensive, integrated, easy-to-use stack of technologies and then there is the Unix approach, which is a piece-parts approach where the customer integrates those parts into the ultimate solution.