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[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Before IBM made that statement there were essentially no major software vendors that ported and supported their software on Linux.

Yes, one might argue that Linux-Apache-MySql-Php revolutionized things but other than that a clear majority of things were run on solutions that put money in Microsoft's pockets.

Feel free to name drop some major finance systems or similar enterprise systems you could run without Microsoft cashing in on the OS in some way between 1990-2005.

As I wrote before, it took us 20 years to get rid of IE and a lot of proprietary server side junk Microsoft blessed us with. It's not an coincidence. 99% of all companies were stuck in development tools from Microsoft.

It wasn't until the hardware really really caught up with Java requirements that things really changed.

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