The "Business Week" published on November 8 pointed out that when the Government of European governments replaced Microsoft's Windows products in the European governments, Microsoft initiated counterattacks for this, then in the next time, Microsoft can be in Europe. The market successfully curbed Linux's offensive?
The French Paris city government has 17,000 Taiwan table and hundreds of servers. Not long ago, the Parisian government said that it plans to stop using Windows products on all machines, and then fully turn to the Linux operating system. The feasibility report of the program announced outside October 13 this year. The report believes that the Paris Municipal Government is best to continue to use Windows products in the future. This recommendation result makes the local many Linux fans feel frustrated.
In today's Europe, computer software is not just cold ice binary technology, but a large extent has a feature of political science. From Paris to Vienna to Rome, governments are intensely arguing for the future products that should be used in the future. One of the parties believe that the European government should continue to use Microsoft products in the future; and the other part said that open source software has free or low-cost, and the government departments should use open source software. This debate stacked, so that Europe has become a key battlefield in global software war.
Open source software is not favored in Europe. First, the Government of Europe is more annoyed to Microsoft's market advantages and encourages the emergence of windows alternative products. Second, many European policy makers believe that if Europe wants to get resistance to the US Chambers in the software industry in the future, then Linux is their best time. In the world's three Linux vendors, there are two headquarters in Europe.
One point, European favors Linux also has its cultural factors. As we all know, Linux was originally developed by Finns Torvalds, which makes Europeans a special feeling of linux. Not only that, Linux's open source spirit and business model also have some kind of accomplishment with the Homheng political concept of Europe.
So far, Microsoft still occupies most of the market share of Europe. However, the Vienna Municipal Government has begun to turn hundreds of PCs in the PC to use Linux. The second largest city in Norway has also decided that hundreds of Unix servers will turn to Linux instead of a Windows operating system. What is more compelling is that although Microsoft has said that if the German Munich government can continue to use Windows, it will give it a 35% discount, but the city is still decided to turn it 140,000 desktop machines before 2008. A Linux system.
Of course, in the past 18 months, Microsoft has played counterattack war against Linux's invasion and achieved results. The feasibility study of Paris is one of the major victories of Microsoft. For example, in New Hugm Autonomous Municipality in London has intended to transfer to Linux systems in the future, the report of a consultation firm in January this year said that Windows will continue to save $ 600,000 in the city a year. In order to ensure that New Han continues to be their own users, Microsoft will provide discount prices that are not published in the city.
Not only that, after three years of trial Linux products, the Turku City in Finland decided to reuse Windows. There are also reports that there are some defects during use during use. As October this year, the employees using the Linux server and the German parliament unable to access the Internet or send and receive emails, forcing the above departments to temporarily transfer to the Windows server.
In order to successfully contain Linux, Microsoft hired some open source software experts and provided higher discounts to their customers. At the same time, Microsoft also strengthened its market propaganda offensive, indicating that Microsoft's products have more functions, which is to have more investment benefits, safety and software compatibility of Windows products. In addition, Microsoft also said to many national government officials that it will increase its open source.
