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A Way to Hammer at Windows
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The other major disadvantage to a Windows only shop. a Monoculture is very bad for business. Even with firewalls, and lot's of network protection. It's a simple fact that Windows machines are routinely comprised and if a vendor brings an infected machine into your company, hooks it up to the network, it's very possible and all to easy to spread a virus across your network in minutes. If you have a large company shutting down for a day or two to clean it up isn't an option.
Windows here, Linux there, OS X over there. That way if one system goes down you have reserves to protect yourself.
Windows here, Linux there, OS X over there. That way if one system goes down you have reserves to protect yourself.
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I love articles like this, they play to the simple-minded reader who thinks there's a war going on.
Well, there is, actually, but it's one-sided. Microsoft can attempt to "protect" all of their so-called intellectual property (remember their outrage when they were sued by Lotus over the use of the slash key? Gee, they sure have turned a corner). They can fight all they want. More, I hope -- the thrashing is somewhat entertaining.
But they're gonna "lose" the enterprise-class heavy lifting as long as they continually think that this whole idea of "Windows-only" is ever going to be a cost-effective enterprise solution.
Far more their style will be the home market -- the consumer stuff. Yeah, I know they're facing stiff competition there, but the type of interface more suits the type of thinking that defines what Microsoft is all about.
IBM has been, is now, and will well into the future, understand how to run large-scale operations with real solutions and consulting might. The whole OSS/Free Software thing helps them do this more cost effectively. The fact that they are willing to share some patent stuff makes total sense to me in this context.
--FeriCyde