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Is Open Source / Freeware finally making a real dent in Microsoft

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BuckeyeMike80;1511858; said:
I can tell you, without revealing too much, that quite a bit of the large storage that DOD uses is either ZFS or ext3 file system and USUALLY it's either Red Hat Enterprise LINUX or Solaris. what happens with the Solaris side will be interesting with Sun being bought by ORACLE.

while I don't see us (meaning DOD) moving from the Windows desktop anytime soon, essentially 100% of the storage we use (across all of our networks in my organization and it's a LARGE data footprint) is stored within an Open Source environment.
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I don't really see that as much of dent in the MS empire as the server side of the business world has always been dominated by Unix in one form or another. It's hard for MS to lose market share where they never really had it. :)
 
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Muck;1520415; said:
I don't really see that as much of dent in the MS empire as the server side of the business world has always been dominated by Unix in one form or another. It's hard for MS to lose market share where they never really had it. :)
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Good point, Sun still dominates the huge network markets, but I have noticed the smaller companies are now leaning towards looking for linux admins rather than the easy to come by windows admin. Linux admins tend to make quite a bit more but the company saves a lot on the overall licensing costs.
 
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Muck;1520415; said:
I don't really see that as much of dent in the MS empire as the server side of the business world has always been dominated by Unix in one form or another. It's hard for MS to lose market share where they never really had it. :)
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I can only speak about my experiences in DOD - with virtualization the coming thing for DOD, what share Microsoft did have will shrink even more.
 
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FWIW the dagger I see pointed at MS' heart isn't on the desk top nor the server side....it's mobile smart devices.

Palm/Symbian/RIM etc have been the major players in that arena & aren't going away any time soon.

Microsoft didn't have the opportunity (or foresight) to dominate that market before it took off like they did on the PC front.

The move to lighter/smaller/more portable devices isn't going to end anytime soon. THAT's the future for most users & that's where Microsoft's market share is going to get pounded.

Windows on the desktop? Sorry Linux fanbois but it ain't ever going away.

---Touching on OC's other thread - This is the reason that Google's pushing cloud computing so hard. While you may not be able to run MS Office on your smart phone, you'll sure as heck be able to run google docs via the web (and 24/7 connectivity is where everyone is going with the devices).
 
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While it feels like too little too late, this is something I have been awaiting for a while.

Ubuntu Manual Will Be Available with Ubuntu 10.04 - Created for and by the Ubuntu community - Softpedia

Understand, I am pretty familiar with Linux due to the fact that most of my security tools for work are not available in windows, but for new users, it can be pretty intimidating, and though you can google your issues and usually find a solution, the fact that there hasn't been a whole lot of native documentation has made the product tough to push.

Mind you, I still think gnome needs a lot of work, and Windows 7 is a great product, which isn't helping. Hopefully their manual will give users who would like the opportunity to see alternatives a real chance to get to use the OS and make a decision without just getting frustrated and saying "screw it, I am going back to windows, this is too much of a pain"
 
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Don't know if F/OSS will ever make a significant dent in MS anytime soon, but I will say that it is going to make a huge dent into Cisco.

Last November we terminated our copper circuits (T1 and MARO) and switched to fiber optic ethernet. Since we were going to have to replace all the routers anyway, and I knew I could probably do what I wanted with commodity hardware since the fiber optic has an RJ-45 handoff, I downloaded a free, unsupported ISO of Vyatta. I've got this running on two old IBM 306 series eServers.

Just an absolutely amazing kit of routing software. We're three months in without one second of downtime, and these home-brew routers are faster than the Ciscos we replaced yet cost 1/10th as much.

Better yet, if a router would ever go belly-up, I could boot any desktop I can find off the ISO CD and turn it into a router in less than 5 minutes as a stop gap. Previously, if one of our Ciscos would have died, we'd have been fucked.
 
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Yahoobuntu!!! | popey.com blog

Interesting development, since Yahoo is a Microsoft Partner this is slowly putting MS's hands into Ubuntu, something the Open Source community will not go for in the long run. Ubuntu has set itself aside as the common linux build, hell, I know people that when refer to any linux build as Ubuntu, run it and don't realize that there's other alternatives like OpenSuse, Debian, and Fedora, all of which are really well build distros.
 
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5 reasons why Ubuntu Lucid Lynx may be a game changing release. | GHABUNTU

It is not the most profitable of those in its class, neither is it the oldest nor the classiest. However, it is the most popular and that popularity is set to increase come this April with the release of the LTS edition of Ubuntu Linux.

All things being equal, the release of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is likely to be a game changer in its own right and help increase the awareness among more people about the existence of alternatives to Windows. The following five factors will definitely play a crucial role in this regard.
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The hype about the next version of Ubuntu is nice, the fact that it's actually getting coverage is amazing to me, but let's see if it lives up to it.
 
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OCBucksFan;1650647; said:
distros.
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Is it just me, or is the sudden use of this word some sort of far-reaching conspiracy? I swear I've never seen it before this week, and suddenly the word count is approximately equal to "the."

People have to stop using that word. It makes me want a sammich.
 
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