Re: Windows Server’sGreatest Moment (was: Windows Server’sGreatest Moment)

On Sat, 11 May 2024 18:33:35 +0000, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 10-05-2024, Tyrone <none@none.none> a écrit :

On May 9, 2024 at 6:12:25 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"
<ldo@nz.invalid>
wrote:
>

Time to revisit the episode that totally and finally made clear that
“Windows Server” and “reliability” could never go together: the London
Stock Exchange débâcle of 2007-2011.

>
And desktop Linux is also a huge failure.

 
Nonsense. Desktop Linux works fine for those who want to use it, so it
is certainly not a failure. And Desktop Linux is far from abandoned, the
market share progress every year. It globally very limited but it wasn't
meant to conquer the world, so nothing failed about it.

Yeah, that's kind of what makes it impossible for Linux to be considered a
failure. There's no one entity behind it, yet tons of companies make money
through it. Additionally, even if the efforts of companies that produced
software for Linux end up not being fruitful, their efforts are not in
vain in that their code can be picked up by someone with greater
motivation who will find the success that eluded them. It's hard not to
see is as a spectacular success.