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Originally Posted by Kephael
The only mainstream product from Microsoft that is really any good is their office suite. But since the economy sucks the only people who are buying it are those who need it for work and students. Does anyone here use Server 2012 or any of their other overpriced enterprise products? It seems open source alternatives in those spaces are much better, I'd pay for CentOS/RHEL before I ever bought Windows Server. I've seen some large corporations use products like Lync but that's most likely because they want support and don't know about alternatives like Jabber.
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I am sure the bigger companies do. People do not really use Windows Server to run websites. They do it because they have it for other things. But almost every corporation in American has plenty of Windows Server licenses. How do you think they manage there user accounts? How do you think they run accounting applications? How do you think CRM's are run? All on Windows Server machines. As I said. I am sure some of the larger companies in adult have in-house windows servers running these kind of applications. But in corporate america, this is all that is used. Unix only exists for trading platforms and high-latency stuff. But most business applications run off of windows. They sell plenty. I probably sold 500+ windows server licenses myself last year. There is also Microsoft Exchange. Pretty much the only mail server used in corporate america. If you are a hospital or a bank and you have to conform with some kind of compliance. They have to do email archiving etc. This is all Microsoft Exchange. Then there are people who use Terminal Services for remote workers, and anyone who is running Citrix, which is millions of companies, have to have windows servers with terminal services licensing. They sell plenty . They are out there, and in corporate america they are the 800 lb gorilla.