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| Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 03:55 AM EDT |
MS will linger, yes.
But you know why IBM survived? It's because they sold *hard*ware. You know -
mainframes and the like. Where the customers paid because they had no choice.
They needed the capacity, and the reliability, and the software, and they paid
IBM because only IBM could provide.
When MS disappears from retail, customers are going to discover they don't need
MS. Small businesses will quickly upgrade to LibreOffice. Medium businesses will
discover they don't need Exchange. Big business will start asking "why are
we using SQL-Server".
The doomsday scenario that bothers me is if MS goes bust (could easily happen)
and all the authentication servers go dark. A *LOT* of businesses will be badly
hurt if XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7, 2010 etc just stop working or go into crippled
mode ...
There'll be a very big aftermarket in authentication hacks for a while ...
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: albert on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 03:48 PM EDT |
The bigger the company, the more inertia it has. Switching a large company from
MS to another OS is a fearsome task; it must be done in parallel, and only when
the new system is operating correctly, can the old one be switched off. This is
expensive. Management needs a really good reason(lots of $$$) to change. This
is the reason for MS entrenched monopoly in the enterprise. More execs are
seeing the advantages of Linux. A well managed and secure cloud environment
might be the way to go. No investment in new hardware, take as long as
necessary for testing, etc.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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