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James Gosling On .NET And The Anti-Trust Trial

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-minced-words dept.

gwernol writes: "There's a short but interesting interview with James Gosling over on ComputerWorld. He talks about the differences between J2EE and .NET and also about the Microsoft anti-trust trial. Some interesting perspectives from the founder of Java."

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  1. Balogna! by glrotate · · Score: 2, Troll

    All you need to look at are these pages:

    http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/m/msft_qb.html Balance Sheet

    http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/m/msft_qc.html Cash Flow

    Note:

    2.1 Billion incoming cash. 5.2 Billion Cash on Hand.

    I think MSFT is solid.

    I mean use a little intuition. Every beige box sold means $40 in revenue from windows. What's the Marginal Cost of another copy of windows $2? Now add in Office or Works. Then add all the copies of NT server that are sold, all the CAL's. All the Exchange servers, all the Exchaneg CALS. All the SQL servers, all the SQL CALs. Thats a honkin lot of revenue, and very little marginal cost. MS in making money hand over fist. That's what monopolies do, maximise the difference between marginal revenue and marginal cost. MS can keep cranking out licences and were stuck buying them.

    MS growth may slow, (although one could argue that vast international markets lay untapped), but they aren't about to colapse Enron style.