Sun is the father of Java, right? Sun open-sourced Java, even with the risk of forking, right? I really don't see why Sun would like to kill MySQL. Sun is, IMHO, one of the biggest corporate OS supporters. »

I agree with racerx. Many people are still stuck with a Windows AD. An article that explains how to use Windows accounts for authentication on Linux servers would be very helpful and would help, at least in my company, to make the usage of Linux servers more acceptable to my management. »

I had to double check the date of the article. I can't believe this has been written in 2007, but I'd rather think in 2002-2003! I'm using (K)Ubuntu (previously Debian, Suse, RedHat and Gentoo, besides some specialised distros like IPCop) on my PCs, my laptop and my servers. I am proud to say that I'm completely Windows clean! Not a single Linux distro ever destroyed the OS during a remote update...Windows did! On older machines I can run Linux headless (without graphical interface)...I cannot with Windows! The last Windows installation was made unusable by a virus scanner update (yes, I paid for that!)...no such problem on Linux. I like doing video editing, on Linux I use Kino, which is rock stable...not so on Windows, all programs I used where uttely unstable! I find everything I need within seconds using tools like grep, locate...not so on Windows where Explorer took minutes to find files and the grep-like function was in my experience completely unusable. I find the way Linux is organised very logical (user data in /home, configuration in /etc....), not so with Windows (everything mixed IMO). Installation went perfectly well in about 30', including faultless hardware detection. I'd consider myself as being a power user, but definitely not a guru or Linux nerd. My wife and kids (8 and 4 years!) are using Ubuntu as well without any problem. And they're certainly no "specialists". For what we're using computers for (Internet surfing, email, watching DVDs, video editing, photo & graphics editing, software development, office stuff), Linux serves us perfectly well. Better than Windows, at least for me. »