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To: Eric Wells who wrote (1065)9/9/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Read Replies (1) of 1794
 
I don't you can deny that NT has been a success

Actually, I disagree. NT has been a great mind share success- everybody seems to think its taking over the world. But the reality is that its sales are not at the same level as its perception of penetration. This isn't like DOS where you have %80 of the intel box category running one OS. NT is a minority, and unix is still the vast majority of server software. While NT has been a success at going from %0 market share 10 years ago, Linux has already beaten that penetration rate and it has been around (in viable form) for much less time.

I don't see where the open source system necessarily doesn't have a "team with a dedicated leader" as you advocate. That is the model all the open source projects I know about follow, just as the closed source ones as well. I think that you don't fully understand how an open source project works, and I think this is because you probably haven't been exposed to one. To some extent it seems counterintuitive. But give nthat we both have a common background in closed source product development, I think you should go out and look at how it works for open source- pick a project and join the email lists and watch how things are developed. Telling you about it is like trying to describe a piece of music. You have to hear it. Only becuase we have a common background in closed source can we even talk about what its like to develop closed source.

Here's the crux- name a single software developer who loves microsoft who's got a choice. I've never met one, with the exception of people working for microsoft who were worth millions in microsoft stock

From the CIO perspective, NT is not stable but more importantly, Microsoft will NOT take responsibility when things go wrong. Certainly not in my experience.

Or course microsoft will throw money at the problem- and the only reason linux is viable is that no amount of money can defeat it- a great example is netscape- it didn't take much moeny for microsoft to defeat them... but that's not the case with linux.
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