I wasn’t sure what I would find here: I suspected it might reinforce my thinking that for J Q Public, it all comes down to applications and Windows clearly owns the corporate desktop right now.
But claiming Windows has an edge in scalability, file systems, and security seems a stretch.
“We’re still working with our partner in this, and we’re not ready to say who that is,” Peter Houston, Microsoft’s Windows platform senior director, told TechTarget on the LinuxWorld floor, where Microsoft had its first LinuxWorld booth. “We’re finding there’s a slight margin in TCO for Linux in very simple Web serving [and] for Windows in super-Web serving, things like hosting environments, that don’t have anything to do with Web-centric applications. There’s a larger [Windows] advantage … in file systems, network infrastructure and security infrastructure.”