Did you all know, according to the Lex colmn, in the FT todays date,that,
1) The Linux technology has emerged as a credible alternative for corporate IT.
2) Sun, HP, and IBM traditionally marketed high margin Unix equipement and software
that have suffered from Linux growing popularity
3) M$ has not been overly affected by linux.
4) Open source software is unlikely to gain even a foothold in personal computing
OS so M$ 's monopoly remains impregnable.It's $8.8bn office franchise is equally
secure.
5) The long term threat to the server business is real.
6) M$ model has been low price high volume model and is for the first time
being undercut on price.
7) M$ can argue that Linux suffers from real security issues that are only
now emerging and that the operating system has a tendency to fragment,
making it difficult to ensure applications reliability .
Say, does anybody recognise this description . I leave it to you to answer.
If FT editors can be so misinformed !
John
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