"Linux is not after Microsoft. Linux is chasing Unix out of the enterprise server scene.
"Why not Microsoft? Well, its because Microsoft apparently has not completely succeeded in the data center league.
"'Unix made its inroads on data centers where Microsoft failed,' Alex Pinchev, Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales of Red Hat said. When it comes to the enterprise landscape Microsoft’s weakness has been its scalability, performance and security, for example. Unix has for its strength these, except that it is rather on the expensive side..."
