Comments on: AT&T looks into closing its Windows

A team of researchers is evaluating how Linux and Mac OS X stack up against Windows for internal use.

Can you hear me now? I said, Adios.

"Too little, too late from Microsoft" and "Increasing risks of using
Windows" means that more people will give serious
consideration to changing operating systems.

This is not just inevitable, it's good business sense.

Matter of time

It was just matter of time that many companies are looking into a better OS. M$ will soon feel the blows to their pocketbook. Who's falt is that you may ask? It's nobodies but Bill Gates and his top misfits. What funny is that M$ is not really worry about it. They think the path that they have took will put them back on top. Someone there needs to wake up and smell the coffee at M$. M$'s world is falling apart.

[ferricoxide]

Gotta Disagree

For the near term (think the lifetimes of the next few major releases of Windows), this is all mostly "business tactics". As a large corporate buyer who wants to cut costs, I threaten my incumbent OS provider that I am going to replace their OS because it's too expensive to own. Incumbent OS provider responds, "really? How much would I have to discount in order to keep you as a customer?" The discounts are arranged and everything stays the same.

Will it hurt MicroSoft? Yes, they won't be able to pull the huge margins they once were. Will it cut down on overall deployment? Probably not so much that it hurts them financially nearly as much as the reduced margins will.

Unix returns home!

Mac OS X is based on Unix which was invented by whom? AT&T!

[ferricoxide]

Yes, But there's further Irony

OS X is based on Berkeley UNIX, not AT&T UNIX. SCO owns the latter.

-tom

[zaz.net]

Not based on unix...

It really is not based on Unix, it seeks Posix compliance. It does have some Unix code in the back end to meet this goal. That has made the Mac server line much more powerful than we've seen in the past from Apple in the server market.

Billy Boy should see writing on the wall...

His desktop empire will eventually go the way of all other empires throughout history. It will 'become' history.

[ferricoxide]

Said by "Billy"

"Damn. I'm not making several billion dollars a year off the performance of my company. I have to make due with my billions in personal net worth and the financial returns on all of my personal investments. Whatever shall I do? I am going to be a pauper."

[ferricoxide]

Too Bad...

...most of these companies that are "investigating Linux" or other OSes are only doing so to try to milk MicroSoft for discounts and aren't really being done with an eye towards IT changes.

-tom