News Comment All comments on news story: Is Linux ready to challenge MS Vista? It's a reply to comment: Is Vista ready to come out and play? by: CMonster3  Wishta? Where is Wishta? Bass Ackwards by: Bob Robertson  They seem to have not chosen my comment on the site for publication, so I will reproduce the essence here: The question is not if Linux is ready to duel with Vista, since there is no Vista! Where can I buy it? Where are 90% of the new and gnarly features Vista was supposed to have, as touted in 2002? The real question to anyone is, is Vista in a position to compete with Linux *at all*? What features, balanced against the price of new hardware and Vista itself, does Vista bring? I contend: Nothing. In a business, it is the applications that matter, not the OS. The OS is a commodity now, just like disk drives, something that Microsoft has not realized. Take the money that would otherwise be used to pay the price for Vista and offer *half* of it to the providers of your "Windows Only" applications on the condition that they port their software to Linux. That way, your IT department can do everything they want to do, at half the cost. What company can afford not to cut their upgrade costs in half?
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