RE: Microsoft Windows, will rule in the next 8 years in the market

From: "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco" <juancarlosreyesp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:43:26 -0500
Today we've got 4 linux clients, the others being Windows.  The computer
room is 60/40 Windows vs. UNIX Linux.  Follow the CIO's master plan & in
5 years the computer room will be 100% Unix/Linux and desktops will be
50/50.  Some others I know of in the local area, Boston Ma USA, already
have 100% UNIX Linux in the data center today & the desktops are
migrating.  If nothing else it's a matter of cost reduction.=20


Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco [mailto:juancarlosreyesp@xxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 3:38 PM
To: Goulet, Dick
Cc: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows, will rule in the next 8 years in the
market

Thanks Goulet, I make you the same question I did to Jared
which is your opinion, in 8 years
x% of client customers will be windows/linux
and
x% of server customer will be windows/linux
For example in your office, how much linux & windows computers you have.
:)



On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:04:44 -0500, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> From someone who has to use Windoze along with Linux & HP-UX.  Windoze
> interface is proprietary, develop for that platform & you can't get
> multi platform independence.  Having to reboot to clear 90% of one's
> errors is also not an acceptable thing.  Having to reboot after each
> software patch/load is not acceptable.  Having to patch the OS 30
times
> a month to keep the hackers out is not acceptable. And having to
reboot
> every month to keep it running smoothly, not acceptable.  We're moving
> towards a more thin client would based on application/web servers.
With
> that again IE is MS specific & there are more than MS clients out
there
> so you've got to stick with NetScape or FireFox as your target
browser.
> End result, in 8 years Microsoft will have the same market share in
> operating systems as Apple has today in desktops.  I firmly believe
> we'll see the end of Windoze in the data center in that time.
Possibly
> not the desktop, but that's looking slimmer as well.  In 2003
Linspire,
> Linux desktop OS, only held .1% market share, in 2004 I believe they
> rose to around 3%. And that's climbing I believe.  Heck, VMS that I
> loved & mourned because we were told it was dead is happily still
alive
> & well, just not as well known.  So watch out for the PR hype & spin.
> It'll make you dizzy!!
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> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
> Oracle Certified 8i DBA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 2:50 PM
> To: juancarlosreyesp@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows, will rule in the next 8 years in the
> market
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> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:19:34 -0400, Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco
> <juancarlosreyesp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi list, I was reading and article, some "investigation" says
windows
> > will be the operating system of the future. The person who writes
this
> > article don't loves microsoft window anyway, but money does
miracles.
> >
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> Juan,
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> This FUD has been circulating since Bill posed for the
> beefcake shots in Beat.
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> It wasn't true then, it aint true now.
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> As long as their are folks that can think for themselves
> and see thru marketing hype, there will be people implementing
> non-MS Operating  Systems.
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> Try spending some time writing utilities using only MS
> command line tools, and it becomes obvious that MS
> will never eliminate the competition.
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> MS does not now, nor has it ever, innovated.
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> MS knows PR, marketing and spin.  There are fortunately
> people that are immune to this.
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> --
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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