“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.”
Linus Torvalds
“It has been difficult for IT administrators in the Microsoft world to transfer to Linux and get a lot of things done.”
Warren Shiau
“Microsoft has been claiming all along that Linux would become a real competitor to Microsoft's operating system. If you stretch this out long enough, who knows, they could be right. Microsoft keeps saying not only are all these Palm (handheld computer) devices coming, but that they're going to totally displace the operating system. If you stretch this out a year, two years, that could happen.”
Robert Lande
“[Open source] applications are not integrated into companies' Linux environments. They are built on one off environments so there's no consistency... there are real support issues,”
Bob Muglia
“Microsoft can compete against any single Linux vendor, but they can't compete a global Linux ecosystem with universal interoperability,”
Jim Zemlin
“Now Linux is in a more critical applications layer, and our research looked at the applications server, focusing on J2EE [Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition].”
Chad Robinson
“Users should be less concerned if the application they're using is from a Linux distributor, because they have patches available. But with third-party vendors, users might not know about the problem until they read about it.”
Thomas Kristensen
