Paul, Re: "I wonder why LINUX hasn't put the FIRE to Microsoft the way AMD has put the FIRE to Intel?"
Well, here's one thing Microsoft is doing, in partnership with EMC and their recently purchased Data General:
EMC Corp. and Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic alliance designed to help organizations worldwide more
effectively build and deploy highly reliable, available and manageable business solutions using the Microsoft©
Windows© 2000 Server network operating system. The companies will combine Windows 2000, leading storage solutions and services from EMC, along with end-to-end solutions and services from EMC's Data General division to address the computing requirements of customers with the most demanding information technology environments.
As part of the alliance, Data General is offering the industry's first 99.9 percent uptime service guarantee for Windows 2000, enhancing its high-availability solutions for customers running their mission-critical operations on Microsoft enterprise platforms. This uptime service guarantee will cover clustered Data General servers running Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows 2000 Data Center Server, when available.
Of course, Data General is an all Intel shop. So, this might be a good first step toward guaranteed uptime service using a Microsoft OS. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if a ton of hardware, and software got sold toward this end, since I'd have (at least) 3 stocks participating.
biz.yahoo.com
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