Comment Re:Awesome.. but some perspective (Score 2) 227
MS is a Mature Company. They are having a hell of time milking their Cash Cows right now. MS Office and MS Server both have significantly declining sales. Everything else they have touched has been a loss leader (xbox, bing, win mobile etc) This is an attempt to capture market share before falling completely into the toilet.
Red Hat inc on the other hand has grown from the ether into a profitable company despite a product portfolio significantly smaller than M$. Where Red Hat Shines is the offer the best of the best when it comes to support of their software. Enterprise Red Hat Linux is significantly cheaper when you factor in the level of support you get. Do not forget that even companies as large as IBM outsource or licence Enterprise Red Hat Linux as it feels a niche market that if AIX were to support it would cause a significant profit decline based on AIX market share. I personally have paid for many Domino/Lotus Notes server's installation/migrations from Windows to RedHat as it far more cost effective based on 5-7year hardware cycles. (Which in some government agencies is a short life span. I've seen RS/6000 and IBM PL300's have uptime's measured in thousands of days and life cycles approaching 15years)