"UNIX and Windows data-center market share remain neck-and-neck, according to most analysts, but many in IT perceive UNIX and Linux innovation as slowing to a crawl. We interviewed representatives from Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Novell, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems who were eager to challenge that perception by highlighting areas in which their UNIX OSs are breaking new ground."
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Member since:2005-11-15
actually since noone can reply anything to that I reply to myself
heh tilde, I thought about what you said!
actually this sounds good in theory but what about this office? it's business reality!
to save posts, I'll answer this one here already: yes, I am too rigorous, I know. but on the other hand, I see all these children learning that "office" is the specifier of some software while it clearly is not. "office" is a name, and it is a name for something that is completely different from software.
many kids now get thaught about how to "code 'office'" and stuff like that. they are told that they get a job later if they can do that. that's complete nonsense. real "offices" will move away from what is called "office" very soon.
MS knows that. that's why they desperately try to open new markets like home entertainment.
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2005-11-15
hmm, fine sandwich. let's add some opinion to the internet.
windows can become as advanced as it wants to be, it is crippled by design. the business model of MS is similar to that of google: accumulate ppls ideas and sell them back their own tomatoes. all that innvoation of theirs is no invention of theirs but demand of the user. that most of this is resembling something we have seen in open systems first is result of that procedure: MS customers want from MS the same cool & fancy stuff the got to see on open system boxen. so MS will never be able to technically move beyond unix.
also, since MS won't go away in a while, they are like an annoying neighbour with loud music on and lots of shouting: ignore them.
we will follow our own path of innovation that is clearly advanced, well structured into files and directories and has the customer demand in mind as built-in feature of design, not as hopeful side result of military strategy planning where maximum profit is primary goal, customer always comes second.
if you accept that, innovation perspective is endless. no limits, literally. actually so incredibly vast that many UNIX users get dizzy and dare not think in that direction. :-) I recommend doing so, especially to the address of sun MS when it comes to office and shit. _there_ things is a little stuck at the moment but thats only because the concept of one single "office program" is broken nonsense by design. the pattern is repetitive: everywhere where concepts are taken from MS world, development gets stuck.
so don't look at them. forget them.