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Microsoft goes for Linux high-end jugular

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Microsoft's server division expects to release a beta version of Windows Server 2003 tailor-made for the high performance computing (HPC) market by year's end, Microsoft said, but failed to clarify whether either Intel or AMD's top-end 64-bit processors would be supported. It spearheads an attack on a market where Unix and Linux are firmly entrenched.

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peragrin ·
Just think you got 2400 processors and MS wants even 20 bucks a whack. Yea right that won't go over well.

Also as one person put it so well Supercomputer folks routinely tweak their setups, which means recompiles of the kernel. Will MS allow their source code that visible?

Don't see it happening anytime soon. Linux is number one, because you can change it to suit only your needs.

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