rayePremium
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| Supportabilty Is where others have failed and (hopefully) Google will succeed. Many corporations would like to move away from Microsoft but cannot because of support contracts. Microsoft supports its software, albeit with a very heavy price tag. Businesses both large and small like the security of being able to call up for software support. User Groups are great (IMO sometimes better) than the paid support, but when something goes wrong (ie financial or IP loss) I would not want to be the CEO on the witness stand.
Windows may be everyone's favorite whipping boy, but it is the one you know. I personally find Linux/BSD distos more secure and realatively easy to use as servers. I still stick with Mac/Windows/Office for client because of need to communicate with others on same platform
The PC was first adopted by the single user, then spread to corporations. In the netbook and smartphone arena, Google OS has potential to be the dominant platform, if it ever gets out of beta. If they can find a way to centrally manage thousands of them (like Active Directory does) Microsoft will have some serious competition on the desktop as well. |
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 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
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| said by raye:Is where others have failed and (hopefully) Google will succeed. Many corporations would like to move away from Microsoft but cannot because of support contracts. Microsoft supports its software, albeit with a very heavy price tag. This is true.
The military is replacing most of their Unix and Linux based systems with Windows based ones, albeit a very specially developed version of Windows XP that is supposed to be super-secure.
One of the main reason of doing this: Microsoft is the ONLY company that has the resources to have support engineers (albeit indeed for a big pricetag) on the ground in Iraq, Afhganistan or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on an aircraft carrier within 24 hours of the call.
Of course the military would have provided the transport anyways, but even the biggest commercial Linux distro that HAS support contracts - Red Hat - does not have highly qualified engineers that can be on-site, GUARANTEED, even if half the world is going to shizzle because of a huge war. Microsoft has, and can pull qualified engineers from virtually any country.
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