[GUFSC] Re:[GUFSC] Microsoft to offer Linux software?

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Isto é o que acha o META Group. Não é o que a Microsoft mostra por aí. Experimente digitar ``Linux'' no campo de procura do site da M$.

Isto só seria uma boa notícia se a Microsoft ouvisse a mensagem dos líderes do software livre: http://www.das.ufsc.br/pipermail/guf=
sc/2002-December/000970.html e começasse a fazer software livre. 

At.
Grutz.

> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/biztech/1=
2/10/meta.linux.reut/index.html
> Tuesday, December 10, 2002
> Posted: 8:54 AM EST (1354
> GMT)
> 
> SEATTLE, Washington
> (Reuters) -- In a major
> strategy shift, Microsoft
> Corp. will introduce
> software based on the Linux
> open source operating
> system in 2004 for Web
> services and server software,
> market researcher META
> Group predicted on
> Monday.
> 
> Microsoft, which denied that
> it had any plans to develop
> software for Linux, is facing a
> growing threat from the open
> source software standard as it
> gains share in the corporate
> server market used to manage
> networks and data.
> 
> META Group predicted that Linux
> will be used on nearly
=

> half of new servers by 2007, up
> from its current share of 15 to
> 20 percent, making it difficult
> for Microsoft to ignore Linux
> as a platform for its database,
> Web hosting and e-mail server
> applications.
> 
> "We believe that, beginning in
> late 2004, Microsoft (and its
> partners) will begin moving some
> of its (to-date) proprietary
> application enablers (e.g., .Net
> components) to the Linux
> environment; this will gradually
> include the major Microsoft
> back-office products, such as
> SQL Server, IIS, and
> Exchange," META Group said.
> 
> Group: Microsoft will lower
> prices
> 
> In a further shift, META Group
> said that Microsoft will also
> re-price or separate its Windows
> server operating system "so
> that it can be favorably
> compared against 'free' Linux."
> 
> "I'm unaware of any efforts at
> this time to move any products
> onto Linux," said Peter Houston,
> senior director at
> Microsoft's server group, adding
> that there were no plans to
> detach or re-price its Windows
> server operating system.
> 
=

> "We have made a bet on Windows,
> and we believe that
> customers are getting value from
> the bet we made," said
> Houston, "and we're going to
> continue doing what we've been
> doing for customers."
> 
> Linux advocates argue that Linux
> offers better security,
> flexibility and innovation
> because its underlying code, or
> blueprint, for programs remains
> open to evaluation and
> scrutiny.
> 
> Microsoft, which has grown into
> the world's largest software
> maker by selling proprietary
> software that cannot be copied
> or modified freely, said it is
> not opposed to open-source
> software, and points out that
> its source code is available to
> approved partners and
> educational institutions on a limited
> basis.
> 
> Microsoft faced a similar
> situation a decade ago when its
> nascent server software was
> competing head-to-head with
> m=
arket leader Sun Microsystems
> Inc. , but Microsoft did not
> choose at the time to write
> software for Sun's proprietary
> version of Unix.
> 
> Linux use grows
> 
> Now Linux, essentially a free
> version of Unix, is eating away
> at Sun's share of the business
> server market.
> 
> Sun, a hardware and software
> maker, is now selling
> computers running Linux, a
> strategy that was also embraced
> by International Business
> Machines Corp.
> 
> Redmond, Washington-based
> Microsoft has toned down its
> criticism of Linux recently,
>=
 after an internal strategy
> document said that some of its
> arguments against open
> source software has "backfired."
> 
> Instead, Microsoft has stressed
> that its software is more
> affordable when considering the
> total cost of using Linux,
=
> including ongoing personnel and
> administration costs.
> 
=

> Microsoft fights back
> 
> A recent Microsoft-sponsored
> study by researcher IDC
> concluded that servers based on
> Microsoft's Windows 2000
> were cheaper to own and operate
> =
when used for networking,
> storing and sharing files,
> printing and security, while Linux
> servers were cheaper to operate
> when used for Web hosting.
> 
> "The IDC study shows that the=

> upfront cost is a small part of
> the total cost to the customer,"
> said Microsoft's Houston.
> 
> META Group's report also came to
> the same conclusion,
> saying that Linux's total costs
> of ownership were likely to be
> higher for mainstream server
> applications.
> 
> "IT organizations must evaluate
> platform costs from a
> total-cost-of-ownership
> perspective," META Group's report
> said.
> 
> 
> 
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