Ran across this article today about the future of Microsoft. Gartner (a pretty respected company that analyses and reports on trends in IT) is claiming that Microsoft "faces serious competition that will make Windows moot unless the software developer acts". Interesting thing though. Linux doesn't seem to be picking up steam at the desktop level and, for a business, the Mac (although a beautiful work of art) is generally more expensive and incompatible with most client/server business software. So, who is the competition? The article brings up a good point in that there is not any competition in the enterprise space except for themselves (Microsoft). I would say that the SaaS space is where the competition is ultimately going to come from. When everything (or almost everything) becomes browser based, it won't matter what desktop OS you have, it just has to be compatible with the applications you are trying to run from wherever they may be on whatever you may have in your hand at the time (pc, phone, etc..).
Until later - Enjoy!
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It will be hard to adopt Linux because it's hard to install. The hardware and software will be crazy. What would you do? I hear you're great at this stuff!
Your artical here on "doom and Gloom..." reminded me of the hippopotamus. Now that is a big animal that is said to weigh over 3 tonne. They seem to always be on vacation since you can find them most the time wallowing in the water. Did you know they can eat up to 88 pounds of grass in a day. I was thinking about getting one as a pet but I guess that's out of the question. Now this hits home...I have trouble getting out to exercise and think it's hard. The hippo gets its 3 tonnes off the couch and walks 2 to 3 miles a day. Okay, maybe I can do it. They can gallop up to 18 miles an hour too!! LOL. I'd love to see that. They even run faster than I do.
If you want to see what a hippo looks like go to kids.nationalgeographic.com
I think I have a new favorite animal. What do you think. If anyone wants to comment on this just use this blog site to comment back.
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