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"How long until they decide that Windows Server is no longer worth investing in ?" Without hard data to support it, my impression (or better, my anecdotal expe
by Kurtz79 11y ago
"How long until they decide that Windows Server is no longer worth investing in ?"
Without hard data to support it, my impression (or better, my anecdotal experience) is that Windows Server has quite a strong hold in medium/large sized companies (not necessarily IT companies) as part of the local network infrastructure, and it's quite profitable for Microsoft.
- buffoon 11y agoI think it's treated as a necessary evil. People are starting to realise that it's less necessary these days. Anecdotally, back a decade ago it was common to see a Windows 2000/2003/SBS box in even an SME environment being a fileserver/exchange/intranet/AD box. Now, I rarely see one. In fact they're declining even in large corps.
- frik 11y agoWhat do you use as replacement for Active Directory? Which OS do you deploy on thin clients (ChromeOS, Android, Ubuntu/RedHat Linux)?
- buffoon 11y agoAD replacement: oauth2 backed by a directory server (Azure AD / Google apps accounts) Clients: anything really. The OS almost doesn't matter now.