I've actually never heard that, I've heard more like "no one will support it" until RedHat came around, then it was "no one knows how to use it" until I saw IBM

I've actually never heard that, I've heard more like "no one will support it" until RedHat came around, then it was "no one knows how to use it" until I saw IBM use it, then I heard "but there's no software" until I saw Oracle make software for it. That was just in Non-IT businesses. In IT-industry businesses, I never heard Windows discussed too seriously outside of "well, we had to unfortunately because of a client..."