Software Lawsuit

[Colonel Ingus]

This article talks about a federal lawsuit against the merger of Oracle and Peoplesoft.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&ncid=509&e=1&u=/ap/20040226/ap_on_bi_ge/oracle_peoplesoft_3

So let me see if I get this straight:

It's ok for Microsft to completely subjugate and pillage the personal sotware market but we can't have someone do that to big businesses! OH NO!:ar15:

I think in general in antitrust situations mergers get a lot of scrutiny. It is one thing to grow to dominate an industry and another to try to merge into that position.

Just wait until mictosoft makes up pay by he minute to use it's OS

[igloo17]

Originally posted by LordShard
Just wait until mictosoft makes up pay by he minute to use it's OS

Thats whats coming next.

Originally posted by igloo17
Thats whats coming next.

Yeah I know. THat is why I said it. No one is going to pay by the minute for an OS wqhen they can get a unix box for free. Even if RH9 is a wee bit slow even on a mega system

Eh - MS bashing for the sake of MS bashing is unwaranted. Linux is more apt to eat into Unix's market share than it is into MS's. At the corporate level, huge conversion projects are unbelievably expensive (retraining, new hardware, re-writing incompatible apps), so conversion happens very slowly if at all. Not to mention the editions of Linux that a coroporation would use are NOT free.

On the end-user side, I like Linux a lot, but I wouldn't recommend it to my grandmother. I use it for some things, but I could take it or leave it (same with Windows). In the long scheme of things, Unix, Linux, and Windows are all just the current state of operating systems. Many have come and gone, and so shall many more. The whole fanatacism around a person's favorite OS always blows my mind.

Originally posted by RCinator
Eh - MS bashing for the sake of MS bashing is unwaranted. Linux is more apt to eat into Unix's market share than it is into MS's. At the corporate level, huge conversion projects are unbelievably expensive (retraining, new hardware, re-writing incompatible apps), so conversion happens very slowly if at all. Not to mention the editions of Linux that a coroporation would use are NOT free.

On the end-user side, I like Linux a lot, but I wouldn't recommend it to my grandmother. I use it for some things, but I could take it or leave it (same with Windows). In the long scheme of things, Unix, Linux, and Windows are all just the current state of operating systems. Many have come and gone, and so shall many more. The whole fanatacism around a person's favorite OS always blows my mind.

I wasn't talking about corporate. I know RH advance server costs $3k. but for most people why pay per minute when they could use unix for free? also linux servers are now 1/3 of the server market. go figure

[smithpa68]

Originally posted by LordShard
I wasn't talking about corporate. I know RH advance server costs $3k. but for most people why pay per minute when they could use unix for free? also linux servers are now 1/3 of the server market. go figure

Where did you get the 1/3 of the server market statistic? Can you provide a link?

Originally posted by LordShard
but for most people why pay per minute when they could use unix for free?

Because grandma is completely incapable of running a linux/unix box

Originally posted by RCinator
Because grandma is completely incapable of running a linux/unix box

lol, gnome or kde isn't to hard to use. and btw I hate linux to the deepest of my soul and I dislike apple and microsoft but I'm to cheap to buy anouther winOS so linux it is for when I am forced to upgrade.
as far as grandma goes you could probably give her win95 and she wouldn't know the diff

Originally posted by smithpa68
Where did you get the 1/3 of the server market statistic? Can you provide a link?

It's in one of my text books. I'm studying to be a network engineer. I just need the A+ net+ and microsoft vert to get a job and then finish up the degree later after I have a job

it's closer to 16 or 17%. Linux's market share is roughly $500M per quarter, with Unix around $4B and MS around $3B. I think you may have confused the 33% with Linux's compound revenue growth rate.

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,83478,00.html

http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/server/story/0,10801,84505,00.html

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,83167,00.html

hmm. well when I sat linux I'm really thinking unix. Unless I give a vendor name like red hat or mandrake. But I dunno. it's somewhere in one of my books and very likely the book is iether outdated, wrong or I thought of something wrong >.<

[Chacal]

There is a difference between server sales and server use. There's an awful lot of small companies out there using a free Linux on their servers. I have several. Never paid a buck for them.