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Posted on 10/01/2005 5:41:18 PM PDT by N3WBI3
Ummmm ... no. I think Bill Gates made one of the greatest business decisions in history by convincing IBM (and others) to put his software on their computers while keeping the rights to the software to himself. Instead of downplaying this stroke of genius on Gate's part, you should question the logic of IBM for doing this. It wasn't default, it was IBM's fault.
What I am talking about are small/medium sized business desktop users. There isn't a lot of time and money to waste on support and training issues.
The really sad part is nobody here is suprised how low the shills will go to start a flame war..
Bill Gates' genius was as a businessman. He took his initial advantage and didn't lose it.
Linux is pervasive in the big data centers around Silicon Valley, and some rather large companies roll their own rather than paying anyone for it (revenue figures don't come anywhere close to reflecting market share). Under my various companies, we are running hundreds of mission critical servers on Linux with nary a dollar spent on operating system licenses or support. If you have a fair bit of in-house linux know how, support is not terribly necessary -- I've never seen a need for it.
That said, I know of many companies that are forking over big bucks for support contracts from Red Hat and others for their enterprise server systems that run Linux. They are only rarely used, but many companies get warm fuzzies from having a bunch of engineers on tap "just in case". That is where the gold mine is.
hmmm ... kinda makes Kildaire the 'Pete Best' of the computer world doesn't it?
I've tried to keep my end of things civil and I think I have succeeded.
What people need to get into their heads is that, regardless of where one stands, open source is not going to go away and will continue to make headway in the areas it best suits.
Proprietary software also has its' strengths and will not fade away into the sunset, either.
A balance between the two will occur eventually.
Red Hat, Novell, IBM, but most significantly many business for whom Linux saves money in an IT budget..
I'm still from the old-world economy. I don't understand how money is made when people give away their wares.
If you sell servers (like IBM) is giving away Linux on that server giving away their wares? RedHat offers support, and training. There are companies out there making money with Linux and the diversity is good for that industry.
whose stock should I be purchasing in light of this information?
I wont recommend stock on an article, there is allot of financial research that needs to be done per company.
Ringo Starr is the luckiest man alive :)
I'm not sure I believe the myth about him brushing IBM off and going flying instead.
Whatever the reason was he made a MAJOR mistake and if he didn't spend each morning looking at himself in the mirror and screaming , "You fool!", he should have.
Well of course. Half of Silicon Valley runs its servers on CentOS (a Red Hat Enterprise clone), Fedora, Debian, or some other "download for free" implementation. These are not counted. Most companies with thousands of Linux servers roll their own internal versions, they don't buy it or have it shipped.
The number of free Linux installs on servers dwarfs the number of pirated Windows servers. (Excluding unintentional "Windows servers" aka compromised desktops, of course.)
I installed NVU not too long ago by clicking a weblink and entering the root password. It depends on the distro how much stays under the hood.
I agree and that's why I no longer get caught up in the uglier sides of this debate. I am an MS person and probably always will be, but I also have a PC with Linux running on it and use it quite often. I like things about both and I think it's a good idea to have an open mind about these things. I have another PC that in November I am going to switch over from XP to a different, non-MS OS. I may decide to take GE's advice and give SUN a try, just like I took N3WBI3's advice and put Mandrake on one. If I don't like SUN I will put Kubuntu on that computer per nightbane's suggestion. I refuse to get locked up into only one OS.
Yep, Not the greatest drummer in the world but, right place, right time.
and if he didn't spend each morning looking at himself in the mirror and screaming , "You fool!", he should have.
You aren't kidding, but that still doesn't mean he would have been savvy enough to retain the right to selll his OS to other PC manufacturers. Still, that's gotta hurt.
What I have decided upon and am currently in the midst of is, basically, our own distro for those who want the Linux client for our software. (Surprisingly, there are many who do. The majority still want Windows though.)
Expanding on RedHat's autorun/automount support to make software installations a little less painful is among the things I am trying to implement.
Until a unified standard for such things appears, it's going to be hard to compete with proprietary OSen (read Windows).
Also, that standard needs to be developed with Microsoft's mistakes in mind (security-wise). Tall order.
Major amount of work, yes. The way I look at it, it will pay for itself in reduced service and support time later on.
Son, you need to learn your UNIX history and the internal characteristics of the various UNIX flavors. There are three major flavors in use today: SVR4, BSD, and Linux. They all have their strengths and weaknesses.
Solaris is a very good server UNIX, one of the best. Its downside is that it is a real PITA to use out of the box, and Linux is catching up with its feature set very quickly and with a much friendlier environment. SVR4 is probably on its way out to be replaced by Linux, but the decline will be slow. Linux will likely be roughly comparable to Solaris for scalability and security within two years or so AFAICT, and I use both.
Apple's OSX is the weak sister of popular UNIX implementations from a server perspective -- not remotely as good as other good free BSD implementations -- but makes up for it with the slickest UNIX GUI ever. The only real desktop UNIX, but a lousy server UNIX.
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I call BS. How about some links, like I have above and typically provide.
The number of free Linux installs on servers dwarfs the number of pirated Windows servers.
Pulled this out of your rear too, apparently. You guys have a serious problem with speaking the truth for some reason.
ROFL, get your facts straight before you even dare try insults.
I watched (again) Triumph of the Nerds last week. It took Microsoft years to get Windows 3.1 out and halfway decent. Windows 95 too billions to develop too. It's release was a tremendous event
Much has been learned since then and producing/improving a very good office suite (Open Office) and O/S desktop Linux just isn't the super human feat it was 10-15 years ago
IOW having a great GUI and Office Suite and internet browser on your desktop ..... all this stuff is a commodity today. I resurrected a Win98/233mhz computer last week. Put a wireless card in it. It's perfectly OK for the internet and if I loaded Office 97 ($30 on Ebay) on it I would have a perfectly good office suite. Or I could download Open Office for free.
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