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Outside of Silicon Valley, it's not so cut and dry.

• kristopolous 11y ago
  Could you take a more nuanced and defined stance? What sectors, markets, or users are you referring to?
  • ktRolster 11y ago
    The Seattle market tends to use Microsoft a lot.
  • UK-AL 11y ago
    Virtually any major corporation will have major installations of AD, File Servers, Print Servers, etc using MS infrastructure.
  • stunthamsterio 11y ago
    I'll chime in; for me this is a god send. I currently work with a client who specialises in working with automotive companies (Ford, Renault, Peugeot etc), and it turns out that automotive companies love MS SQL. The stack I'm working with is a Java/Linux stack with a Windows/MSSQL backend, simply because it didn't scare the customer as much as Linux/Java Linux/Postgres. It looks like as an industry they are starting to loosen up a little now, but those MS SQL databases are going to be around for a while, and it'll be nice if I can at least standardise onto a single set of skills and install patterns for the platform OS.