Something like this may happen the day MS decides that it's windwos monopoly is gone. Then they would have to defend the Office monopoly by porting to java or linux (or whatever is big at the time). Personally though, I don't believe the monopoly is all that strong. I've been living happily with linux and staroffice for quite some time now. The apps are getting there and word 9x or excel seems to be no problem either. To me MS is facing a citutation very similar to Novel in the early 90's and linux is very much like the internet it self at the time.
I doubt that. Last time I looked the number were something like: IBM ($13B), MS ($8B), Oracle ($4). I blieve that would put SAP at fourth place (at best). This was close to a year ago. MS should have grown by 30-40%. I have not a clue how things are doing for IBM.
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Yes, it can be painful if you upgrade from something like radhat 5.0 or even 5.1. Upgrading from RH 5.2 shouldn't be much of a problem.
/jarek
If you mean 2.0.0 to 2.0.36, it seems to be about 2 years and 4 months
/jarek
Something like this may happen the day MS decides that it's windwos monopoly is gone. Then they would have to defend the Office monopoly by porting to java or linux (or whatever is big at the time). Personally though, I don't believe the monopoly is all that strong. I've been living happily with linux and staroffice for quite some time now. The apps are getting there and word 9x or excel seems to be no problem either.
To me MS is facing a citutation very similar to Novel in the early 90's and linux is very much like the internet it self at the time.
Cheers,
Jarek
I doubt that. Last time I looked the number were something like: IBM ($13B), MS ($8B), Oracle ($4). I blieve that would put SAP at fourth place (at best). This was close to a year ago. MS should have grown by 30-40%. I have not a clue how things
are doing for IBM.
Cheers,
/jarek