On Nov 4, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Marc Christensen wrote:
I have no idea what Microsoft's intentions are but they have customers who want to and are running Linux. I imagine that they want to get support contracts ($$) for those customers since they *will* be running Linux regardless of what Microsoft wants them to run.
Might I mention that my company is one of those customers - my division will run Linux regardless of what Microsoft says, but we are less likely to move away from Microsoft entirely if Microsoft is willing to work with us. If anything, we will likely buy more Microsoft servers now, just because we will now be able to officially have support for our Linux desktops and servers. This also allows us to now offer one more thing to sell to our customers who want Active Directory integration. Being a Fortune 50 company with thousands of employees throughout the world, and while I'm not the one dealing with these decisions (disclaimer), I'm sure our Linux situation has been made known to Microsoft.
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