<story><title>Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/head-of-oracle-linux-moves-to-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diebir</author><text>I highly doubt these Linux games will amount to much for Microsoft, but it&amp;#x27;s fun to watch.&lt;p&gt;Their fundamental problem is (which they realize pretty well i seems) that they have lost developer&amp;#x27;s mind share. .NET may be a fine ecosystem and C# may be a great language but in all practical senses it is Windows-only. All these Mono&amp;#x2F;open source CLR games are not even the slightest blip on the radar for a practical day-to-day backend operations running cross platform (which is mostly Linux, but Windows as well).&lt;p&gt;MS is lagging behind the Java ecosystem by 20 years. It&amp;#x27;s fun to watch them scramble and try this and that, but I suspect that the train has left the station long ago.&lt;p&gt;I think Oracle Linux has been a joke. I don&amp;#x27;t know anyone in their right mind using that. RH or CentOS, yes. Oracle Linux? Most IT professionals will pay extra to have nothing to do with Oracle. Heck, I am considering risking moving to OpenJDK, just so I have nothing of Oracle in sight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eridrus</author><text>&amp;gt; Their fundamental problem is (which they realize pretty well i seems) that they have lost developer&amp;#x27;s mind share. .NET may be a fine ecosystem and C# may be a great language but in all practical senses it is Windows-only. All these Mono&amp;#x2F;open source CLR games are not even the slightest blip on the radar for a practical day-to-day backend operations running cross platform (which is mostly Linux, but Windows as well).&lt;p&gt;The JVM has certainly had a lot of time to mature, and certainly has a fairly entrenched position, but when you look at all the developers who were willing to hop on board the Go train with no supporting infrastructure, it&amp;#x27;s pretty clear that support from powerful entities can go a long way.</text></comment>
<story><title>Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/head-of-oracle-linux-moves-to-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diebir</author><text>I highly doubt these Linux games will amount to much for Microsoft, but it&amp;#x27;s fun to watch.&lt;p&gt;Their fundamental problem is (which they realize pretty well i seems) that they have lost developer&amp;#x27;s mind share. .NET may be a fine ecosystem and C# may be a great language but in all practical senses it is Windows-only. All these Mono&amp;#x2F;open source CLR games are not even the slightest blip on the radar for a practical day-to-day backend operations running cross platform (which is mostly Linux, but Windows as well).&lt;p&gt;MS is lagging behind the Java ecosystem by 20 years. It&amp;#x27;s fun to watch them scramble and try this and that, but I suspect that the train has left the station long ago.&lt;p&gt;I think Oracle Linux has been a joke. I don&amp;#x27;t know anyone in their right mind using that. RH or CentOS, yes. Oracle Linux? Most IT professionals will pay extra to have nothing to do with Oracle. Heck, I am considering risking moving to OpenJDK, just so I have nothing of Oracle in sight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dantiberian</author><text>I think this is one of the destructive legacies of Internet Explorer. Many web developers (including myself) got fed up with IE, and that rage transferred onto Microsoft.</text></comment>