[Discuss] MS Buys GitHub

[Cy Schubert]

The O/S is irrelevant today. The winner has been docker under 
kubernetes. The best any other O/S can do is attempt to host Red Hat 
Linux containers or carve out a niche for itself. I suspect that over 
the next five, ten years for sure, the desktop will be no more and 
server operating systems will be a stub running as a VM, kind of like 
VM/CMS did.

~cy

In message <525FB8C2-AEBD-4B2D-96DD-D73A5BE4BE81 at telus.net>, Peter 
Willis write
s:
> There is a feeling that MS is easing out of the operating system business.
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/news/companies/microsoft-restructuring-window
> s/index.html
>
> It’s a pattern seen before with Novell and IBM. The return from services is
>  much more lucrative.
>
> MS loses money on the OS side of the business. Especially now that most opera
> ting systems are on handheld devices.
>
> P.
>
>
>
>
> > On Jun 4, 2018, at 10:13 PM, Darren Duncan <darren at darrenduncan.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm particularly interested in how Microsoft's crown jewel, .Net, and sever
> al other projects, have become a well managed open-source project out in the 
> public sphere, both high quality and cross-platform.
> > 
> > I say crown jewel because Microsoft's main hold on people is based on peopl
> e writing software that traditionally only ran on their own operating system,
>  whereas the foundation for all the new software that runs on Windows is buil
> t on .Net which is open source and also runs on other operating systems, so t
> he vendor lock-in is going away.
> > 
> > See also https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/everyone-complaining-about
> -microsoft-buying-github-needs-to-offer-a-better-solution/ .
> > 
> > I have worked with .Net myself for the last several years, and it is very e
> njoyable to use, so this foundation can compete on quality and features while
>  also being open source and cross platform.
> > 
> > -- Darren Duncan
>
>
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