Ellison: Linux Will Soon Decimate MS Windows

cioxx writes "Speaking to a few-hundred ISVs at an Oracle-sponsored event in New York, Larry Ellison made a bold prediction , also covered in Infoworld, stating: "(Microsoft has) already been killed by one open-source product. Slaughtered, wiped out, taken from market dominance to irrelevance [...]", referring to Apache's displacement of MS IIS server. He continues on with a claim that battle for datacenter dominance is looming with a clear advantage on the side of Open-Source platforms, and desktop would follow once Star Office becomes completely "usable" to compete with MS Office. "And it's going to happen to them again on Linux." Newsforge also has a related article on Oracles ongoing linux efforts.

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Re:And in other news:

[zmooc]

Those are the days of xterminals. They've been around forever and will be forever. It's just MS's stupid licensing scheme that causes you not to see them a lot anymore. They'll come back. Along with Linux or any other unix. Especially when we get sound integrated into X. You really don't want to know how much company-money can be saved by ditching windows, office and way too powerfull desktops and replacing them with a xserver/xterminal-setup in which the admin only has to admin a single box.

Re:My girlfriend uses OpenOffice...

[Iguanaphobic]

So not speaking out against the secret police coming to intimidate you, not speaking out against censorship and not speaking out against a war fueled by corporate greed somehow makes one a Saddam lover? I hope they come for you next. Narrow minded, neo-conservative attitudes lead to fun things, like fascism.