Re: The real reason Linux admins are smug
"Enterprises running Linux are using it for critical tasks"
Most I know just use it for webservers that no one cares much about as it was all the web developers knew how to work with...Real work like authentication, databases, email, file servers, content sharing, unified comms, etc. etc. usually runs on Windows boxes.
"The whole VMware thing is mostly based around Windows being too hard to manage within the OS"
LOL at the ignorance. VMWare allows consolidation of many systems of any OS onto less hardware. You still have just as many OS instances to manage. nb - I note that VMWare have now ditched their UNIX type front end interface and went with Powershell...
I guess from the lame tone of your rant that you must be one of those old fashioned UNIX midrange admins whose farm of boat anchors got replaced by an SQL server cluster...