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dont listen to DonnieBoy as he gives,
only 2 parts of the MS software library. MS has made it to where they are on merits, (though a little monopoly doesn't hurt sometimes) as they make what people want, though DB wants you to believe otherwise.

MS and other companies like IBM have are in a position where they aren't going to disappear or go out of business at any time, and as for your open source concerns, money allways comes into play, so the US and other countries with proprietay software will add new revenue streams from Open Source in addittion to their software offerings.

Open source caters to the lowest common denominator in terms of functionality (in other words, what EVERYONE involved agrees on), where as propriatary apps are that for a reason: extended functionality, not a "lock in".

Case in point: WP Office is given away for free on many computers sold by the large companies, yet a great many people still pay extra for MS Office, even though WP can convert any previous Word file into WP. Why is that?

Open Source won't destroy any large company as it's only one segmant of a very large software industry.
Posted by: John Zern   Posted on: 03/14/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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The big difference  SQLServer | 03/13/06
Don't forget, MS will be going all out to make at least a small percentage  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
And, Googles biggest problem is figuring out how to keep MS from leveraging  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
What about the leverage it gives other countries?  April May | 03/13/06
Here in the US, we compete fair and square. No special treatment.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
get over MS already  April May | 03/13/06
And MS better get over the past and prepare for the future.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
As was Unix  April May | 03/14/06
dont listen to DonnieBoy as he gives,  John Zern | 03/14/06
"Free and Open Standards"  John Zern | 03/14/06
No, here's what it really highlights...  techboy_z | 03/13/06
Well, one of the reasons for acquiring companies, is the employees.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
And you know they are "more likely to quit"  John Zern | 03/14/06
Web 2.0?  CobraA1 | 03/13/06
Web 2 is the interactive web where web applications are interactive enough  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
Terminology  CobraA1 | 03/14/06
Public Web 2.0 Company  iKarma | 03/13/06
Keep spinning  TonyMcS | 03/13/06
Everybody said the same thing about electricity a long time ago.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
Please tell this to Penelec!!!  April May | 03/14/06
AJAX  TonyMcS | 03/13/06
Yes, we need a better way to do it than with AJAX. MS is working on that as  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
It's called Atlas..  April May | 03/14/06
Uh... [text inside]  BlazeEagle | 03/13/06
Again, some of the same arguments against buying electricity from a  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
Bad analogy anyway.  April May | 03/14/06
Think of this: Web applications that can cache themselves for ofline use.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
yup  CobraA1 | 03/14/06
MS already did  April May | 03/14/06
Once again, Google  John Zern | 03/14/06

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