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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.
A farmer in Ohio said that Linux is better than Windows. Too bad that couldn't make the front page, too...
Yes, that is ONE of the definitions.
Also, Larry said this, not chrisd. Get literate.
... and the PC will be made obsolete by thin
clients, stupid boxes without a hard disk (predicted by Mr. Oracle from way back).
Does anybody remember those days?
Microsoft says windows will destroy linux,
Oracle says linux will destroy windows
Baath party says republican-guard will crush allies
Washington says guard will be crushed
What's going on? It's almost as if there is some kind of weighting to what people are saying based on the outcome they favour. I just don't understand it.
Ha, mine uses LyX! Beat That!
Larry Ellison gets his name in the papers!
Sorry if I sound underwhelmed, but I think this is just another example of him doing a good job at getting some publicity.
Yeah Apache's winning, on the server side, Linux is winning... but the desktop, if it ever happens, is waaaay into the future.
Microsoft isn't stupid, they won't go down that easy. And Ellison is THAT good at self-promotion.
However, IIS is still dominant is security holes and crashes.
For Microsoft to seriously compeat in the server market these things are a must: -Fix Windows Server memory problems (More up time) -Remove IIS domain controller intergration (Who really wants domain intergration anyway!) -Rebuild IIS FTP from scratch and add-in some configability. (You can't even ban IP's with the current one!) -Stop adding features and go back and make a perfect Windows 2K server -Stop with the bugs and patches....and security holes -sigh- This is the min really
Well, mine uses VI. Of course when I say "mine" I actually mean my right hand, but as it's my only regular sexual partner these days I think it should qualify as an honourary girlfriend.
My left hand also helps out with VI sometimes, but I try to keep it quiet to avoid making my right hand jealous. Women, eh?
"Are you being weird, or sarcastic?" said Emma. I said I didn't know because I get the two feelings mixed up.
Mr Ellison stated, that the free and open Postgresql will render the expensive and clumsy Oracle database obsolete by 2005.
ich bin der musikant
mit taschenrechner in der hand
kraftwerk
apples vs oranges ;)
Here's a segment from dictionary.com:
"Usage Note: Decimate originally referred to the killing of every tenth person, a punishment used in the Roman army for mutinous legions. Today this meaning is commonly extended to include the killing of any large proportion of a group. Sixty-six percent of the Usage Panel accepts this extension in the sentence The Jewish population of Germany was decimated by the war, even though it is common knowledge that the number of Jews killed was much greater than a tenth of the original population. However, when the meaning is further extended to include large-scale destruction other than killing, as in The supply of fresh produce was decimated by the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, only 26 percent of the Panel accepts the usage."
This usage does not include actually killing users of Windows or the people who make it, which puts it in the latter 26% category, so it's probably not a great term to use in this context. Ah, english.
Well yes, everyone knows that the Woad Warrior drives a car...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Does anyone else worry when Larry makes predictions like this? When was the last time he hit called it right?
meh.
Hosting apache on windows is like hosting cheerios in beer.
He deliberately used the word to give himself an out later if it doesn't come to pass? Inconceivable!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Ricardo da Silva Lima
Actually it's like hosting Baluga caviar in horse-piss. ... Get it right.
The Roman Army, Part II
The worst punishment of all was decimation, usually applied to a whole cohort, in which every tenth man in the unit was randomly selected to be clubbed or beaten to death by the other soldiers.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
So, what you are saying is :
Larry Ellison is the George Costanza of Information Technology
Good. I can accept that. And when He does, he'll be better off for it too I imagine.
"...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
morphing: A gradual animated transformation from one image into another, partially accomplished by moving certain points in the first image to corresponding points in the second image, in stages.
Decimate means to randomly slaughter every tenth men of your legion, chosen by random by his fellows. (Who are the ones forced to kill him.)
At least I believe it was 1/10. May have been 1/4.
It sure as hell wasn't 100%.
I'd probably stop thinking of girlfriends as sexual partners if they'd stop getting so damned jealous when I fuck their best friends.
I've seen her in that nightie. Your wife should be reduced by 60%.
I bet ol' Larry will change his tune then!