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 Although Microsoft claims that they are not worried about the momentum of the Linux movement, they are doing a lot of back-peddling in the way they currently do things. In an attempt to stave off the loss of market share, Microsoft has begun a new marketing campaign that would allow countries and big businesses the opportunity to sign a contract with Microsoft and in return those companies and businesses would be allowed to view MS's source code. That's view, not modify it themselves. What purpose would this serve? Microsoft still don't get it!
The funniest part of all of this is that Microsoft is still claiming a lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Righhhhht. <sarcasm>Because it costs so much to implement a free OS and it is not very secure and everyone and their brother has a copy of the source code and it is so hard to find a geek that just graduated that has been using Linux for 6 years and why wouldn't you want to reboot every two or three days.</sarcasm> Oy!
Microsoft is (as always) basing this statement on research that they have done and research that they paid someone to do. In my opinion, a server that is insecure and unstable raises the TCO. They also neglected to mention that to use Windows on a server, you have to get an updated OS, because they don't support the older ones any more, and to run a current version of Windows you need up-to-date hardware - which also raises the TCO.
The timing on this is a little frightening with all of the "bad press" Linux has been getting lately with the SCO vs. IBM issue. However, the Linux community and 90% of business using it are not impressed or afraid of the empty threats and demands for licensing fees from business that are using Linux on servers that serve data - web, mail, databases, etc. In fact Linux's numbers are still on the rise even with the current stupidity that SCO has started. The news sites that I have read recently have all been saying pretty much the same thing: all of the analysts think you should just give up and either buy the darn UNIX license or use Windows; while all Linux guys say no, don't do it, SCO can't win!
If I could predict the future, I would, but I can't, so I won't. Personally, I doubt SCO will be winning this one. Even if they do, I seriously doubt that they will be allowed to charge Linux users a UNIX licensing fee. But if they do I foresee an incredible increase in the use of OpenBSD and FreeBSD (which, again, are both free and run on older hardware).
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August 1 2003, 11:27 AM EDT, by
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