It has been said over and over that without doubt Microsoft is an inferior
product in the server market.  Bill Gates knows it.  However, he also knows
how to market his product.  Windows-XP fka Windows 2000 aka Windows Me fka
Windows 98 fka Windows 95 fka Windows fka MS-DOS had a huge jump start on
the desktop.  The deal that was cut with IBM, who is the real giant in the
computer industry (about 10X of MS revenue), was sheer genius.  Everybody
knows that Linux (name your flavor) fka UNIX is a superior operating system
in the mission critical market.  Early on the complexities of the superior
operating system made it impossible to install and manage on the desktop,
this may change.  Is is better that each of the operating systems
concentrates on its strong characteristics.  I for one prefer the simplicity
of the Microsoft approach to the desktop but would never put my mission
crittical applications, data or security on anything less than UNIX/Linux.

Try to concentrate on what really matters.  A hundred years from now nobody
will remember Linux or Microsoft except what they read in the history books.
Each tool in any journeyman's tools box has a specific use.  It dosen't
matter if you use Craftsman or SnapOn.  You must use the right tool for the
job.

I could go on about other superior products/tools that are shunned because
they are not of the accepted genre.  These tools are still used and always
will be.

Charles Reynolds

----- Original Message -----
From: jeffrey l koehn <caveman@cyclox.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 9:49 PM
Subject: Why Linux will win and Micro$oft will lose


> Linux will win and Micro$oft will lose. So
> sit back and watch it happen.
>
> That's right, Linux will be on every desktop
> and server and you can damn me all to hell
> for saying so, but that is how it will be.
> The all American Dollar rules. What becomes
> a standard is determined by economics
> ( the cost of the product).
> There was a time when you could get Windows 3.1,
> for $30.00 and that is when Micro$oft
> became a standard, it was'nt because of
> superior technology.
> The genie (GPL, Linux, Open-Souce) was let out
> of the bottle long time ago and as time passes
> it will consume everything. If you ask me, it
> reached critical mass in 1998. The genie can not
> be put back into the bottle. And so the
> next business/technology model has
> already been determined.
>
> Why?
> Because:
> 1)Lower Cost ( The Linux Kernel doesn't cost anything)
> 2)Open-source Kernel
> 3)The "GPL, Linux, Open-Source Kernel"
> is the perfect technology foundation
> for Manufacturing and the masses
> because people, businesses, universities,
> governments contribute to it.
> 4) Linux can scale up or down
> 5) Linux is hardware agnostic
> 6) "Linux, Open-Source" can and
> will morph into future tecnologies
> that will benefit all.
>
> If your not using Linux and your
> still using MS windows, you better
> wake up and smell the coffee
> because the world has changed.
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