To be honest, I see the biggest issue with Linux in the Web app realm is the lack of set standards. If this can be solved, then I’d say that Microsoft will have to keep reaching for answers…

At IT Forum in Barcelona on Tuesday, Microsoft announced the results of a study it commissioned which concludes that a foundational design problem in Linux prevents that system from being as reliable as Windows in real-world scenarios. Stung by criticisms of past studies, Microsoft commissioned the highly regarded Security Innovations (SI) for this particular study, which focused on e-commerce Web applications. However, Microsoft and SI maintain that the problems with Linux would no doubt manifest themselves in virtually any scenario. And now, Microsoft is reaching out to Linux makers such as Novell and Red Hat in order to commission future studies comparing Windows and Linux.

“This isn’t about ‘can’ or ‘can’t,’” Ryan Gavin, the director of platform strategy at Microsoft told me in a briefing yesterday. “There are a million different ways of doing things on Linux, but unfortunately half a million of those are wrong. Customers are starting to hit wall in Linux because of dependency issues. It turns out the componentization model there has some detriments with regards to complexity, manageability, and time to market. Windows has a key foundational advantage over Linux.” [Read the rest]

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