[ Thanks to amd-linux for this link. ]
“We all know Microsoft views Linux as a serious threat and will
do just about anything to discourage its use. But why would
application vendors who actually face competition from Microsoft
help it out in this regard? That’s what one reader was wondering
after discovering that his customers could no longer use a Linux
server with their favorite accounting packages.“‘I have two clients using multi-user network accounting
packages,’ the reader wrote. ‘One uses Quickbooks, the other uses
Peachtree. In both cases upgrades to newer versions of each
accounting package required I set up either a peer system or a
dedicated server with Windows, and move away from the Linux servers
I’d set up for both. The reason? Both Intuit and Sage Software now
use .NET to develop these applications…'”