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The price was secondary. The ecosystem for windows was just garbage for web, VM, container, etc stacks. Much like they missed the boat on mobile, they missed th
by kortilla 2y ago
The price was secondary. The ecosystem for windows was just garbage for web, VM, container, etc stacks. Much like they missed the boat on mobile, they missed the boat on transitioning to cattle from pets.
Case in point, Linux ate Microsoft in the university datacenters where Microsoft was literally giving it away for free.
- pjmlp 2y agoHardly a case in point, UNIX has always been universities baby, it is thanks to them that it actually had a life outside Bell Labs.
- surfingdino 2y agoNot in Eastern Europe or India where Microsoft was giving away a ton of licenses. The students rejected them anyway.
- pjmlp 2y agoThat isn't the information I have from our offshoring partners.
- kortilla 2y agoYour offshoring partners are ignorant. There is no equivalent partner representing open source. You’re living in a denial zone where you think something is winning because there is no competitor making more money. The reality is people realized they didn’t need to pay at all and moved on with 10-100x the scale outside of the garden of stupidity.
- kortilla 2y agoHow is that not a case in point? Cost is irrelevant and people chucked that shit to the side. Also, you’re mixing up the early days of UNIX with Linux, which were essentially decades apart. I watched Linux eat the entire campuses of universities and replace windows in the early 2000s. The UNIX and BSD life support cycle you are talking about is irrelevant shit from computer science departments where windows was never welcome but the scale was constrained to the department.
- surfingdino 2y agoThat was secondary to startups using Linux, because they could not afford Microsoft and because at the time IIS was as tight as a sieve. Demand for people with knowledge of Linux drove Linux adoption at universities.