Microsoft is hiring a "linuxman"

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 19:52:21 GMT 2010


2010/1/4 Samuel Thurston, III <sam.thurston at gmail.com>:

> I think it's probably a fine strategy for them, since virtual servers
> could mean more sales of Win7 Sever or whatever they're calling it
> these days.  And it's good for IT dept's too, because if you have to
> run Windows in your org. for corporate reasons, it's probably a good
> idea to virtualize (security, stability, etc.), and I would think that
> makes for an easier migration path to solaris or linux, phasing
> virtual servers would be significantly easier than the physical ones.


Their strategy is to try to virtualise Linux and everything else on
top of Windows. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?


- d.



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