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When Rome fell
Historians trace the root causes of the Fall of Rome back to events that happened when Rome's strength was at its height. It was long after Rome began weakening itself that Hanible, the Goths, and the Visigoths could come in hand the Romans their lunch.

Since those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it, we now see MS using WPA to create disgruntled end users just as this little thing called Linux is starting to become viable. As if that weren't enough, they decide to increase licensing costs to companies by 65 - 105%. Then they create this major new OS that will revolutionize the world.

Now, I have no idea what the quality of Longhorn will be, but I can tell you that the implementation of it looks to be at least as big an impact on my enterprise as Linux would be. Apps will need to be rewritten, the AD structure looks to be impacted in a major way, and the training necessary for my admins is going to cost me a bundle. In addition, the lockin potential of this kind of MS solution is something I will not put up with from EMC, IBM, or anyone else, so why should I put up with it from MS? Especially since they have spent the last five years (at least) looking for ways to make me angry?

At the end of the day, there are a lot of people like me. People who used to be NBMers and now prefer to find a different answer if possible. We are not this way because of disloyalty. We are not this way because we just like the next cool thing. We are this way because MS took our loyalty for granted, abused us to maintain its market position, and then charged us extra money for the pleasure. When MS falls, and it will someday, historians will write that the real reasons for the demise of Microsoft were internal decay, not Linux,BSD, GNU, GPL, or anything else.
Posted by: Mack DaNife   Posted on: 04/07/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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When Rome fell  Mack DaNife | 04/07/04
History Lesson  Anton Philidor | 04/07/04
defiantely agree with this part...  ryusen | 04/07/04
Hello, Mr. Spengler. Thought you were dead.  Anton Philidor | 04/07/04
We who are about to get shafted, salute you  DevilsAdvocado | 04/08/04
re: We who are about to get shafted  cbradshaw@... | 04/12/04
Defeat from the Jaws of Victory  DevilsAdvocado | 04/13/04
That Vision Thing  TtfnJohn | 04/08/04
Microsoft's innovation  Anton Philidor | 04/13/04
where exactly did you disagree with me?  ryusen | 04/08/04
Glad you asked!  Anton Philidor | 04/13/04
Amen! My MS loathing started with WPA  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/08/04
Wow, he hit the nail on the head. No religion, just facts.  DonnieBoy | 04/07/04
Just zeolotry  Loverock Davidson | 04/07/04
Its MS pushing monoculture not *NIX community  oldskool | 04/07/04
Downfall?? Since when is Linux losing market share.  DonnieBoy | 04/07/04
Downfall  Loverock Davidson | 04/07/04
Wow...  Martin Marvinski | 04/07/04
Zealotry is right  rpmyers1 | 04/07/04
yes you are...  ryusen | 04/07/04
HAH!  Loverock Davidson | 04/07/04
Good at what exactly?  MkIIISupra | 04/07/04
lovesick spews again  zd-spam | 04/07/04
Wow!!!  Martin Marvinski | 04/07/04
you missed point 4...  ryusen | 04/08/04
Partly right  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/08/04
Just zealotry  DevilsAdvocado | 04/08/04
Where have you been?  IT_User | 04/08/04
Well said, Donnie  Chad_z | 04/12/04
Need an ego boost?  Loverock Davidson | 04/07/04
MS is far from secure ... Linux even protects MS themselves  oldskool | 04/07/04
MS is far from secure ... Linux even protects MS themselves  seosamh_z | 04/08/04
MS uses Linux ... admit it Joe! (What's hotmail on?)  oldskool | 04/08/04
re: MS uses Linux  cbradshaw@... | 04/12/04
No ego, he needs to make money. It don't work he don't get paid.  DonnieBoy | 04/07/04
I am rather curious...  MkIIISupra | 04/07/04
Pay no attention to Loverock.  Cardinal_Bill | 04/07/04
Pay no attention to Bill  Loverock Davidson | 04/07/04
You don't need any help to look bad  zd-spam | 04/07/04
Spoken like a true Linsux shill  Loverock Davidson | 04/07/04
You didn't answer  Martin Marvinski | 04/07/04
You didn't answer  Martin Marvinski | 04/07/04
You should really talk to someone about  Cardinal_Bill | 04/07/04
Here comes that train  sunergeos | 04/09/04
Shill for his own company  BFD | 04/07/04
but look at the message  ryusen | 04/07/04
"Yeah, I didn't come to the same conclusion"  sunergeos | 04/09/04
Making the Sun way, the Oracle way,  FilledOut | 04/07/04
This guy is nothing but a HACK  Da-Man | 04/07/04
Quite a jump...  Martin Marvinski | 04/07/04
We did learn something from the Mario brothers  sunergeos | 04/09/04
microsoft failing to move to new business model  hipparchus2000 | 04/08/04
oh yeah and for this idea  hipparchus2000 | 04/08/04
you only need to  V Sanders | 04/10/04
The big decision!  bjbrock | 04/09/04
This is absolutely true  Art Jones 3 | 04/09/04
companies do take time to make decisions  V Sanders | 04/10/04
This guy is a consultant?  JoeMama_z | 04/09/04
please  V Sanders | 04/10/04
That's about right  Chad_z | 04/12/04
The Downward Spiral Has Begun  IT Auditor | 04/12/04

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