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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.
... 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.
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.
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.
Hosting apache on windows is like hosting cheerios in beer.
I'd probably stop thinking of girlfriends as sexual partners if they'd stop getting so damned jealous when I fuck their best friends.