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The rocket engine that accelerated Linux and pieces that it was ready for end users was Google and Android in 2007.

N-no. Correct about IBM though.

It seems that what made Linux and FreeBSD relevant was the late 90s’ and early 00s’ Web. And FreeBSD then lost to Linux, not to Windows Server or Solaris.

Linux’s growth the last 20 years wasn’t mainly driven by enthusiasts, it was business pumping in money in future opportunities.

Only there are different kinds of businesses, and the balance between them is becoming worse.

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mindlight@lemm.ee ⁨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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- rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve just found mentions of Linux support by Oracle before that, so there were things before IBM and that statement. Though on that page there’s no Linux link, but there are AIX, Solaris etc and an NT one.
  
  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.
  
  Could you please, on the contrary, name some such systems strongly requiring Microsoft really? IIS and AD are not that.
  
  I mean, OK, for the thick clients for administrators likely it’d be many things.
  
  But everything IBM or commercial Unix-based, like, again, Oracle databases.
  
  I’m born in 1996, so don’t really know what I’m talking about. Just seems a bit skewed.
  
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