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You are entitled to your opinion though, but again did you ever think of something constructive to add to the issue. I mean maybe on topic! Why should we allow MS or anyone to co-opt Linux in clear violation of the licence agreements? I can only hope that the suspicions are unfounded. Growth of Debian as a standard would be better for the Linux community than corporate Linuxes being the standard.

I think Fedora and Debian are the two largest Linux communities. Where does that leave openSUSE? I think it would still end up ugly, about the same as practically every other collaboration MS has done but at least it would be those two parties involved. As I said before, who sues end users for patent violations anyway? A end user is using a product that violates the patent then obviously the company making the product is the one you deal with.

The ring of this statement makes it sound like a master spinner plying his craft. Servers run by the Linux operating system account for This is one reason Oracle has made its move. Same for Novell. Now its just a cheap replacement for Unix. Almost certainly not. It is negative exponential growth, which is quite normal, and probably approaching a positive lower bound.

The same thing happened with Windows, whose growth now is also much more modest than it used to be. If that is true, then it is a result of the Microsoft TCO campaigns. Forgive my suspicions. Unix company reduced there price. That means that Linux is growing faster than the market, so is Windows but Linux is growing faster than Windows so its share is still growing relative to Windows.

So Windows is still a loser compared to Linux in the server market. The previous quarter it was 6. Now its 5. Even if Windows growth dropped to 0, it would take Linux something like 23 years to catch up if by a miracle it kept its 5. The only strategy is how to grow with it. Never as todays server sales number show.

Todays sales for Microsoft are done by acquisition , they buy companie and make them buy there OS … Its not real growth GoDaddy example. A little fact you tend to forget. He is cashing in now because he know is company is in for a big dive really soon.

Just like when Balmer say he is diversifying is portfolio. Plus all the Settlements and Monopoly and antitrust paiements due to there illegal actions worldwide that have not happened yet and that will be eating there profits in the next 10 years. GoDaddy was interesting. Movement of parked domains from Apache to IIS6 by one of the large hosting companies not the biggest at all significantly cut into Apaches lead over IIS clearly proving that Apaches lead is all about parked domains.

By a small amount. And their share of server sales has actually dropped a small amount as well. People dont buy computers in January and with XP being good enough , people are going to wait for the bulk of application to be ready for Vista before commiting or changing there hardware.

I know that people will not be running to go buy Vista computer as it provide nothing they dont already have. Fact is a couple of years ago when a special read paid for by MS agreement expired between MS and a couple of domain parking services expired There was the last major switch from MS IIS to Apache occurred — ie when no one was paying them to use MS servers they switch to Apache almost over night.

Nothing says that MS servers are more expensive to use than a switch like this one! The reasons I use Apache is cost both up front cost of the server space itself and the fact it is easer to remain standards compliant and that there are so many great tools to work with Apache.

I have from time to time traced out the server software for sites I visited. Most IIS sites are small companies or individuals the heavy movers on the web use Apache.

As far as I can find no one has ever paid some one else to host a site on Apache — therefore Apache won its market share straight up — while much of MS market share was bought by MS and as soon as they stop paying for it — it goes away.

Novell traded Unix patent rights for use of MS patent rights and a lot of money. If you check the background here — Novell needed the money badly.

This money will make Novell a stronger competitor not only to other nixes but also MS. In five years when this agreement needs renewing the chances are good that Novell will be in less need for money so MS may well have problems extending it. Because thinks are starting to not work. As someone who ran Win32 libraries under 3.

Actually XP was a big improvment over 98 and , 98 was really unstable and insecure but was a game horse , was stable but would not have the game requirement fulfilled fully. When XP came out many people where waiting for it due to directX improvments and ease of use and stability , new games people wanted and new software that run better Office.

When new hardware and new software stop working for XP and people feel they need it , then and only then will they upgrade. XP was a really tough sell as was a real workhorse many liked a lot , waht killed it was hardware lack of support , but for the current hardware it still as a lot of nice hardware that as the driver for it.

So yes in January Vista will register some sale , as high as windows 95 , 98 and , no and not even close. They both run the same versions of DirectX, all other things are roughly equal. What 2K does not do is play nicer with multiple processors, support bit environments, etc. No matter how much people do or do-not need Vista, the majority will use it within a few years. People will switch, they will switch huge. The growth is indicative of the growing acceptance towards business applications running on Linux, said Scott Handy, director of Linux solutions and marketing at IBM's software group.

The number of Linux-based business applications available from independent software vendors stands at 2, as listed in IBM's Global Services directory, up from 1, at the start of the year, IBM officials said. Now we are seeing rising demand for Linux-based business applications and a tremendous growth in ISVs independent software vendors supplying software," said Handy.

All three characteristics combine to allow a user to license the operating system with minimal hardware infrastructure, he said. The open-source nature of Linux, in which users can freely share and modify its underlying code, doesn't stop it from providing a viable platform on which ISVs independent software vendors can build commercial products, Handy said.

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