Steve wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Clarence Verge wrote: > > > I can't see why M$ would proclaim Linux a threat. ??? > > Microsoft has steadily been losing ground in the server > market... since '97 iirc. How much of Microsoft's > business is represented by servers today?
True, but if one assumes that at least 1/4 of the population of the entire planet will eventually be on the web and therefore using computers and OSs of some kind, the loss of the server slice is peanuts. ?-) > In the office productivity arena, any machine that > can run Win'98 can just as easily run Gnome/KDE, so > once Linux is the basis for a company's IT > infrastructure, can Linux on the desktop be that far > behind? Even tho I'm not that fond of fat Linux, I would certainly be one of those welcoming THAT change. Anything that breaks the FIXED link between hardware manufacturers/application developers and M$ will be very good for the future of computing. But that's just wishful thinking, isn't it ? - Clarence Verge -- - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - The internet is infected - Windows is a VIRUS !! --
