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MS pressuring Enterprise improvement.

We've been here before. Microsoft owns Windows, and Windows owns the corporate desktop. That means nobody can compete.

Nobody.

And whos fault is that? Its not MS fault for actually believing hardware would catch up with applications. All the rest the enterprise world cared about was lowest common denominator applications and that everything MS did was resource intensive. Big Iron didnt care about the concept of desktop and server integration, they could have cared less. They never fathomed that improvements could be made within a file server OS (Novell got burned for that). That a robust GUI server OS offered more than just eye candy.

So now years later, MS dominates and the Big Iron is shaking in their boots because windows is encroaching on the Enterprise. What did some of you expect? Now all of a sudden we have this so called "innovative" emergence of Linux, which is really attempting more and more to be like windows in functionality.

SAP and Oracle cant charge criminal like prices forever. IF you think the competitions hot know, its only gonna get hotter. Windows server and the latest SQL offer some pretty damn amazing features, speed and stability for the price. Linux, does have a price advantage, but many applications on Linux dont have the same maturity as similiar offerings on windows.

And I know this sounds like a commercial for MS, but I really get tired of the MS dominates whining. No Big Iron company in the late 70's early 80's gave MS a pat on the back adn a key to success. All they did was laugh at what MS was trying to achieve as they churned away on their terminals, and batch flat files on their big expensive proprietary hardware spending gobs of money on countless developers patching and pasting complex, convoluted systems.

The good thing about MS pressure (yes I said good), is that its forcing Enterprise companies to re-think and improve their methods, applications and standardize their hardware. Its kind of the same effect The Japanese auto manufacturers had on The American auto industry.

Posted by: jimk_z   Posted on: 12/10/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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