Sachin Chavan wrote:

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 21:27, Keith Fernandez wrote:

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It seems to be moving from Unix to Linux. This seems to be the trend. I dont see many people moving from Windows to Linux. Linux seems to be eating into the Unix Server market. The windows market seems to be unaffected by this.. This is just an observation...

Why Windows Market is unaffected ???? How linux will capture Windows Market ???

1) Standard Installer Base with support for wide variety of applications. 2) Commitment from a big brand like Redhat or Novell (SUSE) for fulltime support and responsibility of security. Currently these brands support or provide security updates for only those versions of Linux that they sell, whereas they like to call their free versions as "test bed". But a majority of Linux installations are of these free versions or so called the test beds. The sense of security or commitment from a big brand makes even a SME to buy a licensed copy of Windows but are reluctant to buy a licensed copy of linux from a known brand and finally land up using the free versions or the test beds. 3) Unification of OS flavours, this is what I personally feel about linux. Today there are so many flavours of linux that it becomes very difficult to judge out the best and stable distribution. Also I view this as Linux fighting amongst themselves instead of fighting with Windows. If the different Linux flavours unite and form a common distribution and concentrate more on stability and security then it isn't far that Windows will vanish. But still this is something thats impossible. Still just assume the strength and power that the linux community will get if all the distributions stop fighting amongst themselves and fight with the sick windows.