European web hosters dump Linux for Windows
eWeek | at | by Mike
An increasing number of European Web hosting companies are moving part or all of their environments away from Linux and Unix and onto Microsoft Windows to facilitate faster development time, cost savings and more product offerings.
That is good news for Microsoft, which sees the Web hosting environment as a potential big growth area, particularly with regard to higher value services.
"We are looking at how we can enable these higher value services down the road. More than 90 percent of our revenue is driven by partners, so helping them deliver innovation to their customers helps us," Bill Hilf, Microsoft's general manager for platform strategy, said in a session at IT Forum here Nov. 15.