Posted on 11/13/2001 8:52:01 AM PST by Schnucki
What you cite above is exactly what MS supporters now say about Linux. That's called a "clue".
Linux datacenter servers and 64-bit OSs have deployed. The world is moving on. Even MS knows this as the article indicates. Apparently, you haven't been told. MS is acting much like the mainframes of the 80's hence their closed, propriatary .Net deploying with XP Enterprise server. No one's going to want to put their database on .Net and the MISs I've spoken with currently using MS products have no intention of going there. So where they gonna go genius?
I hardly think you have the knowledge of both MS and Linux OSs that I do. Like MS, you are a generation behind in computing.
By the comments made in the posted article, and through my experience as a consumer, I have yet to see this cause-effect relationship take place on Microsoft's part.
The "Marketing Concept" has to do with giving your customers what they want, at a profit (textbook definition). IMHO, Microsoft is forging ahead with the "big guy's" vision of what HE thinks people will want (or need) in the future. This smells more like the "sales era" of marketing tactics used in the 30's and 40's, where the focus was on "selling what you could make" as opposed to "making what you could sell." Remember the movie "Tin Men?" Compare that with the comments made in the posted article. Same sales approach.
I just installed Linux-Mandrake on my computer. I'm was happy to pay my hard-earned cash for it, and I'll be happy to put the extra effort in to learning it (won't take much) because Linux gives me far more choices with regards to how the OS works and interacts with me on a day-to-day basis. Better products will get my money in the long run. Pity Microsoft chooses the "hard-sell" route, as opposed to truly improving their products.
I personally think no-one should be allowed to argue about OS's without knowing how to write(in hex) a boot-loader for a 8080 device in less than 100 bytes. And then load it via front panel switches. GRIN!
/john
I don't know. But you could ask them directly at info@lindows.com
No, but it proves that you are sane. grin!
/john
That's a long time in the computing world, and so far it ain't happened yet. And if it hasn't, I'm willing to bet there's a reason for it.
Quality products do not always win out over inferior products. Which is why the format for VCR's is currently, well, VCR instead of Betamax. It astounds me sometimes to see just how often Linux boosters fail to get this simple fact.
Microsoft is not currently the world leader it is because of its products. That you guys keep expecting that somehow a quality product is going to be their downfall is silly.
I mean, my God, just look at the Apple OS vs Windows 3.1. No contest whatsoever at to which one was better. And yet, somehow MS managed to get a virtual lock on the OS industry.
MS usually wins by being more cunning, more vicious and by just plain outsmarting its competitors. And by being fully aware that their prime business is to make money. Until Linux supporters learn how to do this, Linux will probably prosper about as well as Java has.
GASP! They're already trying to!
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html
Original draft of the bill here: http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm
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