Tag: Microsoft

A large company, was taking over our smaller company and they were on a trend to replace Linux and Java with MS Windows  ®  and ASP.NET.

When the CIO was asked why not go the other way since arguably our smaller company was more advanced put plainly his answer “Linux and Java guys are so hard to find! (and expensive). MS Windows ® guys are all over the place … ”

I liked the proposition that Linux guys are not easy to find, is this really so ..? (feel free to comment) GOOD !!  🙂

So now I know Linux/ Unix is niche, and better paid, but I cannot but ask myself the question why is this so. Is MS Windows ® so much easier or is Linux still growing into a user OS ? and why in the server business is ease of use given importance over customize-ability and tweak-ability.

Also is Linux in any deep way better that MS Windows ®. In my opinion the differences are more in the approach and the attitude of trust towards a single focal point i.e. MS in this case or on a community led by the benevolent dictator  Linus Torvalds . (By the way this is how he pronounces Linux.  [Linux])

I think there is a whole discussion behind this but money affairs aside how did we end up where we are with Linux being so popular and still perceived as difficult.

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