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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by StillBored on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:45PM (#23162071)
I think its a SMB thing. Basically windows owns organizations with less than 10-30 people. And there are a _LOT_ of those, and they do a _LOT_ of custom development for their little specialization. Its the excel sheets that grow into full blown applications, or the vm.net one off utilities someone hacked together that grow into the backbone of a thriving small business. Even the generic catagory SMBs (dentists, car repair, etc) end up mostly being windows shops because the owner gets quickbooks or whatever and runs the whole thing from a windows pc in the office.
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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by sk5t on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:26PM (#23168558)
I entirely disagree with the notion that Windows is strongest in SMB. Active Directory + GPO + various third-party device management stuff, plus the depth of Office-related integrations, and Microsoft's absolutely massive track record for supporting all kinds of uses, put Windows way ahead for large-scale compliance and auditing.

On the side of deploying and managing workstations, I would take Windows every single time over MacOS or Linux. For real, some combination of Apple Business Manager and JAMF is supposed to go head-to-head against AD+GPO? On Linux--Centrify, or something from Red Hat, that might well be more costly than Windows licenses (guessing here)?

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by HeadsUpHigh on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:15AM (#23163686)
No way around using windows as a private medical practice. Too much bespoke software.
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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by genocidicbunny on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:24AM (#23165063)
Yep. I don't think I've ever seen a computer at any of the healthcare services I've used that wasn't either ancient and running some really old bespoke software, or wasn't some flavour of Windows running slightly less old bespoke software.
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