[PLUG] Linux hurt Windows 2000?

Tue May 14 02:40:04 UTC 2002

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Stuart Mathews wrote:

> I heard recently that Linux is "widely believed to have hurt
> significantly the roll-out and adoption of Windows 2000 Server by
> companies."   Has anyone else heard anything like that?  Just
> curious.

Maybe to a small extent...  Problems with Win2K rollouts that I heard of
were mostly because of administrator's unfamiliarity with Active Directory
and no compelling business reason to upgrade.  Also, most companies don't
like to upgrade their Windows servers because it's usually fairly
disruptive to any installed software.  With Linux we can upgrade whichever
specific part we feel the need to upgrade, so system upgrades aren't quite
as daunting to us.
~M