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

Vijay Singh Riyait — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:32:04 GMT

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