New Linux study suggests fundamental Microsoft credibility problems

Linux Watch ^ | 11/17/2005 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

[frankjr]

Plus MS only shipped 7 xbox 360's to my local Circuit City.

[LIConFem]

MicroSoft is the Fisher-Price of software firms.

Windows is a Mickey Mouse operating system.

Linux is for grown-ups.

[Paladin2]

Linux is a Commie pinko plot against FReeper GE and M$. We're DOOMED!

[Sunnyflorida]

This is a fight worth sitting out. Get an iBook.

[LIConFem]

"...Get an iBook."

Ah, yes. Apple; the company that proves P.T. Barnum right every day.

;o)

[KarlInOhio]

"Security Innovation is a certified Microsoft partner for security services. We have both the Microsoft SWI and ACE certifications as an authorized professional services provider for Microsoft technologies."

What kind of idiots does Microsoft think we are, anyway?

Doesn't this just mean that they passed a few tests on Microsoft products, not that Bill Gates kicks them out of bed in the morning and tells them that he wants eggs sunny side up? Talk about mountains and molehills.

[Sunnyflorida]

Stuff works.

[advance_copy]

Linux is the cheap plastic version of Unix. Solaris is for grown ups. *ducking* ;-)

[Doohickey]

Regardless of what Microsoft thinks, Steven, I think you're an idiot with an inferiority complex.

[JoJo Gunn]

ping

[LIConFem]

"Linux is the cheap plastic version of Unix. Solaris is for grown ups. *ducking* ;-) "

LOL!! No ducking necessary. I cut my teeth on Solaris and Sun/OS. Still have a soft spot for Sun Micro.

;o)

[LIConFem]

"Stuff works."

Apparently not well or efficiently enough to be used by any firm requiring a high degree of performance or reliability.

[lemura]

This debate is about as meaningful as Studebaker v Toyota. Long predicted, the whole game has finally moved to the Net. I believe MS stock has remained flat over the last 7 years; meanwhile, the growth in ad revenues for Google, et al demonstrate where the action is.

With its commanding market presence, all Google has to do is gradually roll-out desktop enhancements, and there goes the PC. (The list is quite endless given all the vertical market speciality applications; eg libarary search, geo-mapping, etc are just crude examples of what's coming down the pike.). With Linux handling the back-end server requirements, it's game-set-match.

[gungafox]

Linux is the cheap plastic version of Unix. Solaris is for grown ups. *ducking* ;-)

You need to duck after that one. NOBODY in their right mind should prefer any proprietary UNIX to LINUX. Bugs linger for years in proprietary UNIX systems. They get killed out in the first three weeks after a new LINUX release. That's because tens of millions of people use LINUX and just a couple of leftover losers here and there still use Solaris, Iris, HPUX and the like.

[Senator Bedfellow]

Larry Ellison said pretty much the same thing fifteen years ago - needless to say, we're all still waiting.

[advance_copy]

Bugs linger for years in proprietary UNIX systems.

But what if I like bugs?

[lemura]

I agree - it's been bandied about for longer than 15 years. The problem, of course, is human nature. People are unwilling to change, until they do change. While the concept seemed logical, no one was going to toss their PCs for a Net appliance.

Today is a different story, and it's being driven by Google. Now that everyone is comfortable using its basic search, they're pushing their speciality services. As these begin to make significant headway in certain markets, such as libarary services, we will begin to see the impact on vendors selling vertical (ie MS) applications in these markets.

This is only the beginning - it's quite easy to see where it's going. Another obvious element is that Google is on a hiring binge - cadres of young PhDs are heading to Sunnyvale instead of Redmond.

[Senator Bedfellow]

Would you use such apps, and if so, why?

[antiRepublicrat]

Apparently not well or efficiently enough to be used by any firm requiring a high degree of performance or reliability.

Thus the reason that Windows has more and higher spots in the Top 500 supercomputers than Apple.

Wait, that's not right, Apple is the one that's had absurdly low-cost systems in the Top 10 and currently holds six places, all above the one Windows system on the list (which, IIRC, cost more than any of the Apple systems on the list).