That's what I'm talking about. They just want the programs to work.
If something fails in a Linux-based system, you can get help anywhere within a very, very short time. I've seen many things fail in Windows, but everytime I had to work around the problems.
But, of course, there will always be companies who prefer Microsoft. That's what good about a free market: The choice. And I think it is good, that Microsoft is around, otherwise everything would be *nix, and then IT would be just like civil engineering, serious stuff but without the bells and whistles.
My original point was something else, that Intel's strategy of making money on processors includes a 64-bit processor named Itanium. Linux runs 64-bit on Itanium today, and there are thousands of 64-bit Linux applications available already now.
MSFT has plans for 64-bit Windows, but since Windows software is mostly available only as compiled executables, there will be much software that will run 32-bit on the Itanium to start with. AMD on the other hand plans to release a 64-bit processor, that also runs 32-bit software well. This makes AMD the preferred choice for running 64-bit Windows, and Intel-based systems have to be equipped with Linux instead of Windows to exploit the performance.
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