Roy Culley wrote:
> begin risky.vbs
> <lrlgu3-vmo.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> begin oe_protect.scr
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> The Broken Dynasty
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Microsoft and Oracle are big companies. Oracle is currently worth
>>>| $95 billion, and Microsoft is worth $270 billion. In 2000, they
>>>| were even bigger. Oracle was valued close to $200 billion and
>>>| Microsoft at more than $500 billion.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2006/commentary06092306.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y
>>> http://tinyurl.com/gw4jg
>>
>> This does illustrate the disastrous problem facing MS. In just 6
>> years, their value has fallen from an earthshattering $500billion,
>> to a still amazing $270billion, /but/ at this rate of collapse, MS
>> will be worthless by 2013.
>
> So long! :-)
>
> SW companies like MS and Oracle are very vulnerable. Their only asset,
> to speak of, is their SW. When the shit hits the pan they have nothing
> to fall back on. OSS will kill proprietory SW companies.
>
Not necessarily
It still depends on the type of software
I write, for example, highly specialized (psychological) testing apps.
The amount of money needed to just get the statistics would preclude any OSS
scheme. You need somewhere between 100.000 - 500.000 Euros, and you still
haven't written a single line of code then. And this is for a single app
(the testing suite I work one has 14 different ones by now)
Specialized stuff will probably always remain in the realms of CSS software
But then, nothing precludes running CSS apps on linux
The OS itself though will trounce CSS in the long run
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My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
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