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<lrlgu3-vmo.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> The Broken Dynasty
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>>| 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.
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>> 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.
MS did almost win. Before codered, melissa, iloveyou, etc MS were well
on their way to taking over the corporate server market. Those nasties
were enough to halt it. Since then Unix and even more so Linux these
days Linux is where mission critical apps are trusted.
The next step is clear. Why spend huge amounts of money on maintaining
an insecure desktop OS? Are there alternatives? If it worfed for
servers why not for desktops.
For MS's sake vista had better be one hell of an OS. Sadly, for them,
it won't be. Same fundamental security design faults. MS are truly
doomed. 2013! Not a chance. MS will crash far faster than that.
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as
false, and by rulers as useful." -- Seneca the Younger (4? BC - 65 AD)
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