IT Manager’s Journal: Will Longhorn Become a Microsoft Linux Distro?

“New Year’s prediction: Longhorn will never ship, but
Microsoft Linux will. Even if I’m wrong, it’s clear that
software development is headed for a new place, and the end game
that most observers saw even five years ago–that MS would win it
all–doesn’t seem as likely on the eve of 2004. That said,
Microsoft isn’t going to go away, in this author’s opinion.

“2003 was the year that Apache emerged the clear winner in the
Web server wars, and enterprise Linux servers grew share at an
impressive pace, even as Microsoft announced a flat quarter and
seemed to be having trouble making its new pricing stick. Even the
Linux desktop, much-derided in general media as market share
hovered around 1%, found new life as major analysts predicted large
governments and educational institutions would flock to Linux and
open-source office productivity software in the course of the next
five years…”

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