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> I'm not sure to what extent Linux has "take over servers" though 15-20 years ago for a lot of functions a big UNIX box would be installed. More often than no

by mhurron 14y ago

> I'm not sure to what extent Linux has "take over servers" though 15-20 years ago for a lot of functions a big UNIX box would be installed. More often than not, that box is now a Linux box. Linux didn't so much as push Microsoft out of the datacenter as replace UNIX.

Shorel 14y ago
The two things keeping MS in the datacenter are Active Directory, and MS SQL Server. There were recent discussions about AD here in HN. SQL Server is a great piece of software, better than Oracle and MySQL and its only fault is to run on Windows.