Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Of course people don't care about Linux. It does run some of the most popular, largest and important web sites on the planet. No, of course not.

'69: that says it all.

I remember reading the 1977 Guiness Book of World Records that my grandmother had in hardcover. It had noted the most expensive computer of the time was $16.7M and was the equivalent of a more modern 386SX 16MHz. It was a Cray mainframe.

Tayme Absolutely and totally wrong analysis. I'm about lack of innovation being bad. And using 40 year old technology is bad. And having some of the most promising minds waste that talent on patching an obsolete architecture rather than moving things forward is tragic. Windows is now based on 20 year old technology (Dave Cutler's design based partly on Rick Rashid's work). The reason it's still state of the art and you don't see me railing against it being old tech is that so little improvement has been made the the last 20 years, at least in part, due to that waste of talent to the Unix sink hole. Apple tried multiple times to create a modern operating system (Pink, Taligent, Copland, Gershwin) and failed even with IBM's help. When they licensed ancient tech they were admitting defeat. That's something everyone connected with Apple or IBM should be massively ashamed of. The "Open Source Community" rather than taking advantage of the freedom of lacking an installed base and a requirement for backward compatibility spent the last 40 years tinkering with designs older than they are. That anyone in the computer industry can justify the countless hours wasted on tweaking the old rather than inventing the new is one of the great tragedies of our age and I will rail against it at every opportunity.

Several attempts at creating a modern OS have inexplicably failed. It would be nice to see someone bring something truly inovative to the front.

"he most promising minds waste that talent on patching an obsolete architecture rather than moving things forward is tragic" Who says its obsolete? If its just you then its a meaningless statement. Its obsolete if its not being used any more. OS 2, Netware, Win9x are obsolete. Nix is used in more "mission critical" situations than Windows. I would bet good money that large, critical, database implementations in corporations are probably all on NIX. Oracle is still the number 1 database vendor and implementatons of Oracle are probably 90+% NIX. I just read the other day that Linux is expecting 23% growth in 2009, probably on the server side but its growing. Linux on the desktop is a no go right now because of lack of mainstream application support. OS X has made strides because of application support from Microsoft, Adobe, Inuit, Apple and others. As more applications move to the "cloud" inside of companies or on the internet, the Linux on the desktop has a better chance.