> Dustin says: > Certainly, Microsoft has shown a knack for dominating most > markets that it enters.
Well yes and no ... while Microsoft have a good chunk of the web server market I don't think anyone would claim that they dominate it - likewise the server OS market remains solidly UNIX based in spite of years of Microsoft efforts. Yes, MS do sell a lot of systems but their "domination" owes a lot more to savvy marketing and "perception" than technical superiority or overall market share. Microsoft are very good at selling their vision of their success - but they have had a large number of failures too ... remember when MSN was going to kill AOL? When was the last time you saw anyone using "BOB" (the OS not a "battery operated boyfriend")? Can you honestly say that they dominate a market when the most common comment about each new Microsoft OS when it is released is "It doesn't crash as much as the previous version." Microsoft looks good because they know when to bury a dead dog ... before anyone else can smell it (for more like minded thoughts try http://www.tux.org/~niemi/software-competition/myths/ms-myths.html). I'd be very happy if Microsoft entered the Linux market ... hey maybe they'd finally fix it so that XP-Pro works with SAMBA ... you gotta look on the bright side. -- Edmund Cramp http://www.emgsrus.com/graffiti.htm "... by God I *KNOW* what this network is for, and you can't have it." - Russ Allbery
