Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
A senior IT executive at a major pharmaceutical company summed up the challenge for Linux at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference when he asked one simple question: what are the benefits in migrating from Microsoft to Linux at the desktop?
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Yeah good old lock-in. Greed. Anti-Competitive practises. You name it, the computer industry has them. So who does one trust in such an industry where truth hath many faces, and where monopolies do what they like.
Where will Apple be 10 years from now. Where will Linux be in 10 years time. Where will Microsoft be in 10 years.
There are people who will say that any one of these will be dead.
Myself I can't see either Unix or Apple dead in that time span.