Posted on 10/05/2007 10:35:16 PM PDT by shineon
I don't know if this has ever been posted, but it's a nice map of the status on the war between Microsoft and Open Source.
Is it true you should never mouth kiss a woman with open source ?
Looks llike Windows XP is “overextended”
Probably needs to show Vista fighting XP. Also, in a quick glance, I didn’t see IBM.
IBM is down at the bottom in the middle... sending DB2 to do battle.
Needs a battle between Microsoft and EMC over virtualization.
True, but you still have to buy an MS license when you run windows on VMWare...
VMWare saves you on hardware costs not software - so it’s kind of like Switzerland or something.
But I get your point, because it is a market of it’s own that Microsoft competes against with their own title, though I don’t know the name...
Intel and AMD are big too, funding alternatives to Microsoft just to keep their options open.
SGI has shifted from proprietary Irix to Linux, and is no longer shipping new Irix/MIPS products.
Nice chart - thanks.
But, yes, all these are since this chart was drawn.
Very clever ... but Darwin should be listed under both Apple and open-source, because it’s both. A kind of software lend-lease.
Thanks. I see it now. They deserve more credit. They wore down SCO before Novell delivered the knockout, and their adoption of OpenOffice in Symphony is a nice flanking move on MS Office.
Ummm...what's an IBM ???
Bump!
A company that you NEVER want to get into litigation with. Just ask SCO - or the US DOJ.
Virtual machines -- VMWare, Parallels Desktop, Citrix, whatever -- are a sort of fifth column.
Without VMs, the common argument -- I used to hear it all the time -- was that "gee, I really like [MacOS/Linux/Gnu/Solaris/etc], but I have to run [application X that everyone else uses or custom app at my company], so I'll have to buy a Windows PC. "
With the VMs, you can choose what you like and run what you need. I have Win XP Pro running in Parallels on my Mac. You know what's most amazing to me? How rarely I use it.
That is the danger to MS. That is the erosion of the edifice. If you can use something you like better most of the time and use Windows only when you must, their core asset -- compatibility -- crumbles.
Time was, when Word wrote files only Word could read, that meant everyone had to buy Word. Today, with RTF and HTML and various other formats -- and with the anti-trust litigation that has pushed MS out of the closed-format business -- it ain't so.
It is exceptionally rare that I find a document I can't open on a Mac. Or Linux. I don't have much experience with other OSes. In those rare cases, I fire up another OS, without buying anything new and without my butt leaving its seat. The monopoly is falling away. The question now is whether Microsoft can innovate rather than close-enoough imitate -- and the jury is out. One box to rule them all.
A VM is a threat to MS because it raises the question of why MS is necessary at all. MS has found it increasingly difficult to find an answer to that question. And Vista, with a lot of pretty-pretty but little real utility, has brought the question into focus.
Yes, I use Macs. Yes, I could be described as an Apple partisan. But I don't believe Apple will take over the market, and honestly I don't care. I'm not pissing on corners to mark territory. As long as they make stuff that helps me do what I want in the way I like to do it, I'm all smiles. As long as they make enough money to keep the good stuff coming, cool. If 99% of the population goes the other way, their loss.
The map is great! Thanks. But is Lotus Symphony on it somewhere? http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa
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