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2010-05-26, 15:37

Yes, but I think we have to consider the inertia involved. I imagine that for a company (or any entity, really) to be willing to move their infrastructure to something requires much more than "this infrastructures sucks". Microsoft has got away with being "good enough" or even "generally sucky but workable" that many companies wouldn't bother with the migration even though the technology could be better somewhere because the math. The difference has to be really drastic, so Microsoft was able to get away with it for so long.

I think same thing actually applies to IBM and Oracle when you think about it.

Come to think of it... how big of a presence does Apple have in corporate setting? I know there was a place where they did everything with mac mini which was definitely cool but is there a trend of adopting Mac OS X servers in preference to other servers or even just Mac clients? All press I've seen to date are almost always consumer-centric rather than corporate-centric and if I'm not mistaken the lion of Microsoft's revenue is from corporate.
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