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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: reflux on 3 April 2003, 18:50

Title: Ellison: Linux will wipe out microsoft.
Post by: reflux on 3 April 2003, 18:50
CEO of oracle Larry Ellison predicts that the open-source operating system will decimate microsoft.
Full article here (http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,79951,00.html)
Confirming what many of us already know?
Title: Ellison: Linux will wipe out microsoft.
Post by: Calum on 3 April 2003, 19:07
ellison hates microsoft. i don't think they will ever properly be eradicated, but you can always hope.
Title: Ellison: Linux will wipe out microsoft.
Post by: Pantso on 3 April 2003, 19:29
Well, that would really be difficult, not to say impossible just yet. I believe that it could be done, just not in the short-term.
Title: Ellison: Linux will wipe out microsoft.
Post by: cahult on 4 April 2003, 08:14
Consider this: How long is the typical success period for a company? About 15-25 years. M
Title: Ellison: Linux will wipe out microsoft.
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 6 April 2003, 08:16
quote:
Originally posted by cahult:
Consider this: How long is the typical success period for a company? About 15-25 years. M
Title: Ellison: Linux will wipe out microsoft.
Post by: Calum on 8 April 2003, 16:54
quote:
Originally posted by The Muffin Man:


Support the competition, hurt the monopoly!


i am sorry, nothing personal, this is a mainly semantic issue, but how can there be competition against a monopoly?

microsoft are not a true monopoly because companies such as Apple computing and... RiscOS Ltd (i had to struggle to think of a second one!) are in competition with them. Actually not directo competition, since Apple and RiscOS both make software for non x86 computers. Actually microsoft are a monopoly then, and that's it, but only if you're talking about x86 computers only.

Linux, *BSD and any other open source and free systems are not made by companies and are therefore not in competition with microsoft. using linux will hurt microsoft in that you will pay for less microsoft software, but it will not increase anybody's market share thereby decreasing microsoft's, unless you buy a distro from a *ix vendor, like red hat or mandrake (and i stress, only real bought ones count here). in fact red hat et al are actually microsoft's only true competition right now.

OK OK i know that was a big excercise in pedantry but it had to be said (by some pedant or another!)
Title: Ellison: Linux will wipe out microsoft.
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 28 April 2003, 13:43
Ah, but then Microsoft will attampt an antitrust suit against the developers of linux...


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