Emboldened by a growing appetite for its products in the enterprise server market, Microsoft is launching an aggressive push in the education and state-and-local government markets, hoping to get wins as customers wean themselves from Netware.

Microsoft was also encouraged by a report from IDC showing that for the first time ever, there were more migrations from Unix to Windows than to any other operating system.

In particular, Microsoft is confident that it can do well in the state and local government and education markets, despite some high-profile losses in the public sector. Microsoft is banking on the fact that most governments and institutions are less interested in open versus closed-source philosophical debates than in getting more functionality less expensively. To make inroads in this market, Microsoft has partnered with Quest to offer free network assessments, is offering free training on the Microsoft environment, and promises free support for one incident requiring help.

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