Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration
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Re: Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration
#2I guess "the year of the Linux desktop" may never come, but it also may be irrelevant :) Linux may still "win"
Re: Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration
#3I guess "the year of the Linux desktop" may never come, but it also may be irrelevant :) Linux may still "win"
I'm pretty interested in seeing where Chrome OS will lead us to. I heard a lot of talk lately about moving support and other browser-based jobs to a Chromebook. If Google could gain a foothold in the business world, we could see a shift there.
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#5Its odd how he's cheering the fact that Linux is being used in the way it is, as the engine that runs very closed mobile devices.
Weird.
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#6It's strange that Linux was suddenly taken off the list in their stock filing but I think the article comes with some caveats.
Android in the mobile would be listed as 'Android' in their SEC filing, since it's not really a traditional Linux distro like RedHat/Ubuntu/Gentoo, SuSe etc etc. Also, even Meego/Maemo, WebOS, Bada are based on the Linux kernel, but there's no common ecosystem among these as there is in desktop/server Linux distros.
While they may have only a 15% share in the Web server market, it's a VERY lucrative 15%.
Just as people like to remind us that the iPhone captures half the profit in the mobile market with a smaller marketshare, Windows Server/SQL Server/Sharepoint/Exchange etc. are big money as reflected in the revenue numbers, 4.5 billion USD last quarter or 17 billion last year just for the Server and Tools division. It's really hard to calculate how much money is directly made off LAMP/RoR/Python.
Maybe they don't see Linux as an immediate short term threat anymore, but that is far from dismissing it completely, as the article projects.
Re: Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration
#7I guess "the year of the Linux desktop" may never come, but it also may be irrelevant :) Linux may still "win"
Mark Shuttleworth says Ubuntu is making inroads on desktops and is poised to take off:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/738
FWIIW, IMHO there never will be a "year of the linux desktop." Linux on the desktop is an infiltration, not a blitzkrieg. As such, it will only be recognizable in retrospect.
Re: Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration
#8I guess "the year of the Linux desktop" may never come, but it also may be irrelevant :) Linux may still "win"
I'm pretty interested in seeing where Chrome OS will lead us to. I heard a lot of talk lately about moving support and other browser-based jobs to a Chromebook. If Google could gain a foothold in the business world, we could see a shift there.
Chromebook is interesting but it needs to be cheaper than the Windows alternatives as it was predicted to be before launch, somewhere at $199.
Right now, for about the same money($450), more or less, you can buy a better equipped Windows laptop/netbook and then run Chrome browser on top of it. Add some free MSE antivirus and you've got a machine that's useful as a general purpose computer even without a constant tether to the cloud while working about the same with the cloud.
Re: Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration
#9As a great Ubuntu fan I must say: It's strange why mobile plattforms are always a example for the success of Linux.
Android may be using a Linux kernel, but it has next to nothing to do with traditionel Linux distros, that are developed in colaboration.
Re: Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration
#10I read Microsoft's original change of wording completely differently - it wasn't that they had defeated Linux, it was that Windows had already lost (largely because their competitors changed the game.) Competitors no longer compete only with Internet Explorer, they now offer an alternative to the entire Windows OS. Linux on the desktop (GNOME/KDE) didn't win per-se, but the browser did win, and Windows isn't a necessary choice for a browser-first system.