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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.
This was posted with Mozilla, clearly beating all the IE posts. Take that! ;)
now that's an Anonymous Coward if I've ever seen one...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
"If the US military is still engaged either in Iraq or some other the Middle Eastern country by that time," an unnamed senior State Department official told Hersh, "the President has privately expressed his wish to postpone the 2004 presidential elections both for national security reasons as well as to avoid sending out any wrong signals about our commitment to the war on terrorism".
Coming from an Anonymous Coward... (Yes, same applies to this post)
Clearly no one has a friggin' clue what that means...