Comment Linux Needs A Master Brain (Score 1) 673
One reason why Microsoft may very well come out on top in the long run is that there is no spiritual competitive mind to Linux. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing, but it limits its competiveness. It wins on price point, but if you think that a Redhat or a SuSE can compete with the sales force of Microsoft, you have another thing coming to you. IBM is a possibility, but they really are selling hardware in the end, and people who don't use them are wary to get tied into expensive IBM solutions.
Microsoft has very motivated people pushing their unproven solutions on very gullible company executives who don't know anything about the effort of a migration from Unix to Windows. Linux has no one credible force going out there and explaining it. Hopefully, one of these distribution companies can rise to the occassion and compete head to head with Microsoft and win on the merit of the technology and not on the prettiest graph. Heck maybe we could through in a pretty graph here and there :)
Microsoft has very motivated people pushing their unproven solutions on very gullible company executives who don't know anything about the effort of a migration from Unix to Windows. Linux has no one credible force going out there and explaining it. Hopefully, one of these distribution companies can rise to the occassion and compete head to head with Microsoft and win on the merit of the technology and not on the prettiest graph. Heck maybe we could through in a pretty graph here and there
