Tim -
The majority of the world is pro-microsoft and anti-government. The handful of pro-Sun and Oracle spoilers in relation to the rest of the world is alike a nat on my _ss.
Okay, say you're running a business. You need a database, and I mean a real transactional database, not that flatfile grep-behind-a-gui access thing. You need hardware and software. Are you really willing to pay umpteen gazillion dollars for the needed per-seat licenses from MSFT, or are you going to ...
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MSFT is going to have it's lunch eaten, sorry, it's just a matter of time.
This case is about politics and Microsoft can play better than anyone at that game. I therefore put my money on MSFT.
So you think that people will just blindly keep on shelling out dollars to MSFT for shitty software forever? Why? I'm not talking the case here (which isn't really about politics if the DOJ can get some decent expert witnesses that know software from a hole in the ground), I'm talking about a sustainable business model that isn't based on FUD, greed, and deception.
FWIW, I don't think Solaris is the way to go, either, it's just too slow, and runs on too little and too expensive hardware. It doesn't have a niche. NT's niche is productivity apps and enterprise apps combined. Linux has got a decent productivity solution, and people are starting to line up to supply the enterprise apps. MSFT just doesn't get that they can't fight it.
-justinb |
