Nothing new, we've talked about the dropping # of apps, etc. but still stinks...

Did anyone read the January 3, 2005 EWeek article "Why Unix can't win" ?

 

It discusses that topic with Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president
for Windows server. How does that concern us ?

 

Here you go:

 

Some enterprise users, such as Brian Riley, a senior programmer and analyst
at a large U.S. health care service company, said server choices are
dictated by the application. And in his case, that means replacing two IBM
AS/400's with an application that runs on Windows Server 2003. The company
still runs AIX on some X86 boxes.

 

"The real issue is the platform on which the applications are being written
because that is the platform that people are going to choose. They usually
choose the application first, then base their operating system choice on
that," Riley said.

 

Chuck