Microsoft suffering at hands of Linux

[brianleahy]

Check it out:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=5&cid=581&u=/nm/20030126/tc_nm/bizlinux_dc

Now granted, this news is not as great as if they were losing to OSX, but at least there are signs MS's OS stranglhold is slipping.

If Linux gains ground, it could be good for OSX, since Linux/Unix software can be readily ported to Darwin.

And of course, if the cocoa framework is ever ported to other platforms, I could easily see another revolution...

 

[Cat]

LOL, he alsmost sounds like he was doing a Switch ad:

"Windows is a lousy platform," said Petitjean [...] "It's just not reliable enough." [...] "We want to offer software that's simple to set up and help companies run their businesses without them having to become computer gurus," said Petitjean, who was wearing a "Linux Rocks" t-shirt.

Well I know one uniX OS that's simple to set up and reliable!

 

[chemistry_geek]

I don't think M$ is SUFFERING from Linux yet.

 

[brianleahy]

Well, the ad seems to point to their sales in certain markets slipping, but perhaps it's an exaggeration to say that they're SUFFERING...

 

[Ripcord]

I always love reading tech-related articles in non-tech-related publications. This one's chock full of sentences like:

"Linux started out in 1991 as a project by University of Helsinki student Linus Torvalds to teach himself how to program a version of the two-decade-old Unix operating system used to run powerful computers called servers."

Servers, or "big computers" as they're known in the industry, are run using a technology known as "electricity". Many servers attach to specialized viewing apparatus similar to cube-shaped picture boxes, also known as "television" to the tech-savvy.

"I'm not sure what they do" said little Billy O'Toole, our technical correspondant, "but they're really big and loud. And I bet they cost a billion kajillion dollars!"