Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.
Bob Muglia
We've spent some time talking to Independent Software Vendors recently and the software community welcomes the arrival of a consistent environment to this area.
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This is for any workload which needs high-power computing. We are seeing a transition from government and academic use to a broader market - to bring it into the mainstream. The sweet spot is not for really big machines but in the range of 4 to 64 way machines.
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We see this a pretty good example of how. NET can provide value and a worthwhile service that customers will be willing to pay for
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It's actually very crucial for the financial model to be based on end-users paying for the value they receive. It's a reboot of the Internet business model.
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We see this as an important step in our efforts to work cooperatively with the [mobile-phone] industry.
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Disk-based backup is still in the early stages of adoption in enterprises, and, even then, it is mostly limited to high-end enterprises
adoption early
[The second was the first beta of Windows Compute Cluster Solution, a version of the OS aimed at scientific and financial customers who need compute-intensive systems consisting of large server clusters. This is part of Microsoft's push into high-performance computing environments, areas where it's not been particularly successful, and where Unix rules.] The problem is a compute cluster solution has not been delivered by Microsoft [in the past],.. Our goal is to build a complete platform here. Compute Cluster allows people to build applications that scale across a large number of machines.
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The right server for the right job.
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[Open source] applications are not integrated into companies' Linux environments. They are built on one off environments so there's no consistency.. There are real support issues
consistency real support issues
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