Windows Server 2019 Reaching GA Next Month

[gilboa]

I was presented a biz case that operating Windows in a large corporate was actually starting to become less expensive as Linux.

The issue wasn't so much the support agreements, it was the constant release cycle in Linux and churn of different day exploits that required patching.

They are seeing more breakage in Linux to make patches work than they are with SP's from MSFT.

The question was raised that MSFT has started to pick up the cadence in their Server releases and that the advantage would be lost.

Patching Java, Python and a few other libs are becoming a problem, especially in point releases that are still in their lifecycle.

I'm working with *very* big IT and security departments and I'm seeing the opposite picture.
10 years ago, when we presented our Linux based appliance to fortune 500 company we'd usually get a question-mark-like face, and a "say-what?".
These days most of our customers have a massive install base of RHEL (and Debian / Ubuntu LTS) machines and we're seeing far less Windows servers outside Windows-only roles (Exchange, DC, etc).
More ever, we are seeing a massive shift from data-center-hosted Windows servers to cloud-hosted Linux servers.

Keep in mind that in the eyes of the IT, the mere fact the unlike Windows, RHEL comes with multiple RH supported stacks (E.g. LAMP, Java, etc) makes mass deployment and maintenance considerably easier and cheaper.

At least as far as I see, I can barely see customers using Windows for application servers, VM hosts, and file/storage servers.

- Gilboa

[cybertraveler]

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You shoulda called it BCK, not BACK

(Or "BAK")

[gilboa]

You shoulda called it BCK, not BACK

(Or "BAK")

Took me a while to get the joke.
Slow brain day.

[cybertraveler]

Took me a while to get the joke.
Slow brain day.

It's not even a joke :P I feel triggered by the lack of alignment and symmetry in your list of computer names :P

[gilboa]

It's not even a joke :P I feel triggered by the lack of alignment and symmetry in your list of computer names :P

Given the fact that the subject of this thread is Windows, and Windows (as a legacy of DOS) creates bak files in billion different places, well, you get the joke.

As I'm feeling particularly good about the world today, I will align the names

- Gilboa

[cybertraveler]

Given the fact that the subject of this thread is Windows, and Windows (as a legacy of DOS) creates bak files in billion different places, well, you get the joke.

As I'm feeling particularly good about the world today, I will align the names

- Gilboa

Yey! :P