Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Wed Jan 16 06:31:57 CST 2013
Hi Hans -- I have just accidentally got read the following Ward Cunningham's (@WardCunningham) tweet from 12th of January, 2013: "Servers no longer serve, they possess. We should call them possessors." If I'm not wrong with my understanding of the verb "possess" ( save, keep, maintain, preserve, retain, hold (down), withhold ) he uses then that tweet is in accordance with my current "pure servers" market understanding - I mean, servers, and SMB-market servers especially, are becoming more and more "possessors" or just keepers of backup data - files, media, databases with true (IT/automation) services going served via "Cloud" - whatever server technology is used to keep the cloud services functioning. And here TCO would be mainly "cloud" hosting costs assuming development and consulting costs are nearly equal and backup local servers costs could be neglected. Desktop hosts for MS Windows-driven PC would be higher but not that much for my customers to concern. Please correct me if you think I'm wrong and you see that SMB servers role is in fact growing nowadays. (I'm putting corporate lan/wan servers out of my view as I'm not working for large business/corporations...) <<< I was only pointing out, in response to your email, that Microsoft's claim of 60 million Windows 8 desktop licenses sold is misleading and that Microsoft is unwilling to clarify those numbers... which is curious. >>> OK - this is why I proposed to "pigeonhole" discussing that stats till January 2014 when, I suppose, there will be no way for MS to publish "misleading" stats... Thank you. -- Shamil Вторник, 15 января 2013, 23:43 -08:00 от Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>: > >Well, I was personally more interested in the discussion about how Linux in the server market. I was only pointing out, in response to your email, that Microsoft's claim of 60 million Windows 8 desktop licenses sold is misleading and that Microsoft is unwilling to clarify those numbers... which is curious. > >- Hans > > <<< skipped >>> >