Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 05:57:04 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <15119.35840.463078.163832@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105261154280.115-100000@molly.telia.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105252316300.294-100000@molly.telia.com> <20010525183932.B742@zippy.mybox.zip> <20010525183157B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105261154280.115-100000@molly.telia.com>
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Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com> types: > As for "world domination", as long as Microsoft dominates the desktop, > they > have a very good weapon for dominating the server market as well. What if > Microsoft introduces a really kick-ass, proprietary, extension to Explorer > that only works together with an IIS server? What about this illustrious > "dot NET initiative"? It is true that the server market is the most > important one, but the desktop an server segments affect one another to a > great extent. We NEED the desktop! With Windows dominating the desktop, there's a real economic incentive to put Windows on the server - it's a smaller skill set to pay for to administer the systems. I've had a number of clients try Windows NT on the server, fail to get it working well enough to use, and then give up and go back to Unix. So the real question is, what if MicroSoft simply introduces a version of Windows that's stable enough to use? Since their practice is to keep trying until they get it right, and they have the resources to do it wrong many times, it's bound to happen. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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