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Vacuum
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| Some expect the end of monopoly to be a
| catastrophic implosion but M$ has so many
| locked-in so firmly that it will be many
| years before the decrease in revenue bites.
| As long as they get paid for doing little,
| the shareholders will get their dividends
| and success will be guaranteed. When the
| money does shrink seriously as it did in the
| year of GNU/Linux (2009) the monopoly will
| collapse with a whimper, not a bang. They
| just have too many customers fooled and too
| much money to disappear quickly. The world
| could be a very different place for IT in a
| couple of years, however. â7â is not going
| to give them earth-shaking results and that
| was their best shot. It will take a couple
| of years for some to realize M$ no longer
| has anything to offer except licences to use
| its same old software. That they tried to
| increase prices and failed in a down-turned
| economy is proof that they are not only
| losing it but that they are nearly
| irrelevant.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/02/15/vacuum/
Growth in Hard Times
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| Last year, 2009, was good for GNU/Linux but
| many businesses had to fight hard to stay even.
| SJVN reports that a bunch of the regular FLOSS
| apps were in demand by businesses looking to
| the future. The thing that may be surprising to
| some is that Java servery is hot in commercial
| users of FLOSS.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/02/16/growth-in-hard-times/
Related:
Linux makes inroads into Microsoft's domain
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| The cost of the PCs is Rs 21,600 each (includes OS and a 19" TFT monitor).
| Linux, according to Umashakar, has helped ELCOT "reduce general hardware
| costs by nearly 25 per cent. In the case of high-end servers, the savings
| could be as much as 80 per cent."
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http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/02linux.htm
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