Whats the difference running an ERP application on Windows vs. Linux?
The question comes down to how that ERP system integrates with the rest of the customer environment. In the case of a Microsoft solution, there’s a whole set of tools and capabilities in the software that we include in products like SQL Server and in some of the solution sets that we make available to enterprise customers to allow them to deploy and integrate that application into their environment. Those sorts of things typically are not available on Linux, and what happens then is you bring in consulting services to glue those things together. Some of our competitors, IBM most notably, are predominantly a consulting company. And for them, complexity is a benefit, because it allows them to sell consulting services.
