Scott Handy
Scott Handy
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When we started off with Linux six years ago, we promised to invest $1 billion, and now we are getting that investment back on a quarterly basis going forward.
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We're more balanced than a Microsoft solution provider, who pretty much promotes Windows as the answer no matter what the question is.
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We don't see this as commercial versus open source. More people are using the two together.
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A third of workloads now being deployed on Linux come from Unix, a third from Windows and a third are new installations.
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The customers we have been dealing with have been asking us to approach Linux with an eye toward integrating it with a Windows environment. Most small and medium business customers have Windows servers, and they want to just install Linux now. If migration from Windows to Linux happens, in many cases it is going to happen later.
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It's first at this point in time. We haven't had an integrated stack like this before.
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Let's not be confused. We all sit on the same side of the fence: all Java is good, all standards are good.
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Last quarter there was $1.5 billion in Linux server sales as an industry, with Linux server revenue growing eight times that of the overall server market at 42 percent, versus five percent growth for the total sever market. That growth was also more than four times that of Microsoft's Windows Server, which gained 10 percent.
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In a broad sense there are a lot of people working on the elusive nirvana of cross-platform development. This is a very specific area where we firmly believe and espouse as part of our strategy to use a language and an architecture that automatically gives you cross platform.