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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 21:18:20 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On 23 Oct 2024 18:00:55 GMT, vallor wrote:
> 
>> My politics are middle-of-the-road by any other measure, but many
>> red-state denizens would consider me -- not "left", not even
>> "left-wing", but "leftist" and "a dad-blurned lib'rul!"
> 
> Welcome to the normal world. Which many (most?) people in the US seem to
> consider “radical left”. Here in NZ, we call it just another godless
> atheist socialist liberal secular democracy.
> 
>> Meanwhile, we use Linux _a lot_ in our business.  I daresay Linux is a
>> more useful server and workstation OS than anything else.
> 
> It seems to have pretty much put an end to Microsoft’s Windows Server
> business--at least the on-premises part. As well as killing off Windows
> Home Server, Windows Media Center, Windows Server HPC Edition ...

Don't get your hopes up. We had two sites that ran Linux on the servers. 
That made a great deal of sense since the core programs were developed on 
AIX. The Linux servers lasted as long as the administrator was a Linux 
fan. The new boss went back to Windows Server. 

The workstations were Windows. Linux was fine back in the server room, out 
of sight, out of mind. That's similar to the cloud. A Linux instance, even 
RHEL, is less expensive than a Windows Server instance. If the product is 
such that the end users have no idea about the backend all is goopd.