War not won, says Nicholas Petreley
Nicholas Petreley explains his recent InfoWorld statement
that "Should Microsoft ultimately win the case, however, I guarantee vendors
will abandon Linux faster than a rat out of an aqueduct".
While his point that the war is not won is valid, he has missed
some crucial details:
home computer prices are collapsing
making Microsoft's
software a very expensive component. In the business world,
Windows-terminals save money by reducing administration costs and
reducing the number of software licenses that must be bought.
Windows-terminals can run other OS's than Windows -- for
instance, Linux with the
Citrix client. Finally the enormous emerging market is the
consumer appliance market which needs an idiot-proof UI -- not
Windows compatibility. Some links from LT.
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