UNIX was, and other standards were out as well. Windows had the song and dance, and the trap to capture the buisness world in thier scheme.Originally Posted by Loony BoB
Actually a lot(or a handful in the grand scheme of things) of companies have migrated a long while ago. Fingerhut, Godaddy, I think amazon. I think many of the old, larger buisness use mainframes such as AS/400 (etc) Linux's superior architecture makes this single OS a valid canidate for replacing many, many mainframe styles.Reluctance to change their program is the main thing holding all companies back - along with the time it takes to change. Maybe this new software that my company is coming up with to replace the old stuff I use right now will be multiplatform, but even then there are all those other things I mentioned in my post replying to Raistlin. It's not Microsoft paying these customers to buy their stuff. They just buy it because they don't want something else. If they had the time and money to invest in something else, they probably are already doing so... but right now I've just not seen Linux prove itself at the big business level. I wonder what the largest company to use Linux as it's primary OS is?
Funny thing is, some of these companies started to migrate to OS/2 a number of years back. Everything was swell, untill microsoft started to stomp and kick. They stepped back, and anted up with thier dirty Joe Peche baseball bat and started swinging away, all with the grand old endorcement of our(us) government. (Damn the judicial branch) Microsoft's weapon against OS/2 was starving it for software by threatening developers with denial of information essential to get around Windows bugs and "features". This was extremely effective, eliminating all major software developers, but will have little effect on Linux. There just aren't any major Windows software developers left, and most Linux developers simply aren't interested in Windows.
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