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iQubed on Vista vs Linux - and not from Microsoft, but a partner who has sold both Microsoft and Linux Solutions

 I like Vijay - he never lets me get away with cutting corners and has an honest perspective on many things.  His personal review of what Exchange, Vista and Office will bring to the world is refreshing because he can say he has been there!!

Vista vs Linux

October 13, 2006 on 6:51 pm | In Linux, Vista |

As Vista nears the business launch date of November 2006 the articles doing a comparison are appearing thick and fast. Firstly, let me say I’m an advocate of Open Source and what it has brought to the world. It’s given us some great solutions and powers the heart of the internet as we know it and companies like Google have built their business on it. That’s not a bad achievement!

However, Microsoft has a formidable offering to both consumers and businesses alike. This offering is only getting stronger through EVO (Exchange Server 2007, Vista and Office 2007) and issues such as the WGA debacle and delays in Vista aren’t going to make the impact of these new technologies any less dramatic.

Source: iQubed Blog » Vista vs Linux

Posted Mon, Oct 16 2006 3:16 PM by David Overton
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Vijay Singh Riyait wrote re: iQubed on Vista vs Linux - and not from Microsoft, but a partner who has sold both Microsoft and Linux Solutions
on Tue, Oct 17 2006 10:32 AM
I have to say I came from a very sceptical background regarding Microsoft and thought naively that small businesses would welcome shaking the shackles off! However, that's not been my experience but independently I came to conclusion that SBS 2003 was the right solution for many scenarios. However, we can't ignore 25% of the server market which is rock solidly Linux. The OS is essentially becoming commoditised and the Open Source community has pushed that, driven also by Intel/AMD hardware costs. The applications are key and .NET is where the interesting things are happening. It's a truly cross platform technology and the logical conclusion is that in years to come Microsoft Solutions will be able to run across many different platforms. There will soon be a .NET 2.0 implementation for Linux by the Mono Project and check out Miguel de Icaza's blog http://tirania.org/blog/ to see how the Open Source and Microsoft worlds can come together. Miguel is a die hard Open Source guy and founder of the Gnome Project (one of the main Open Source Desktops) and you try and tell him and his team (they are actually working for Novell) that Microsoft Technology is no good! Cheers, Vijay

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