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Windows was already on low-margin consumer x86 boxes so there wasn't the same opportunity. Linux enabled commodity hardware to eat Big Iron's lunch using that
by pengaru 3y ago
Windows was already on low-margin consumer x86 boxes so there wasn't the same opportunity.
Linux enabled commodity hardware to eat Big Iron's lunch using that same x86. Dell and IBM certainly made a good business filling datacenter racks with their x86 offerings for quite some time.