VistaEra wrote:
The results are in. Linux - while considerably improved over it's crash
prone past, is still a very, very long way from usability, and offers
essentially <zero> challenge to Microosft Windows.
He he, nice, I 'm sure your boss will appreciate your efforts. But Open
Source it can't be stopped any longer. It's already surpassed the
outdated Microsoft development model.
[quote]
"During the time Vista has been delayed the Open Source community, who
constantly betters their products by openly sharing their code, has
gained momentum and is blowing past the Microsoft Bohemith. If Vista had
been released on time there would be little reason, other than security
and stability, to use anything else. However it was delayed time and
again until the rest of the development world is slightly ahead
technologically.
At Sweet! Computing we have used Microsoft Vista and it's a fairly
decent operating system in it's own right (security issues aside).
However, with it's late release Vista is not nearly as spectacular on
the desktop any longer as there are more spectacular desktops already
available, and for far less than the hefty price Microsoft asks for
Windows Vista.
It appears the more streamlined approach of sharing code openly, where
you don't have to reinvent the wheel over and over, is really paying off
and has become the new, and future mainstream model for software
development. After all, the code base for newer systems is huge. If you
can re-use code that already has the bugs worked out you have a huge
time saving advantage and greater stability. We're not sure how
Microsoft is going to pull it off, but they are almost certainly going
to need to adjust themselves to this approach if they even hope to
remain competitive in the future.
There is no doubt that through the magic of the advertising dollar
Microsoft will do well with it's new release, and we wish them well. But
now that the Open Source world is beginning to dictate the pace it will
be interesting to see what directions are taken in both arenas.
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Full article at http://sweetcomputing.com/index.php?wiki=Linux2007
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Thank you,
tomiro
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