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Microsoft Suggests Red Hat Short on Development for Competing Linux System | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: Wall Street Journal | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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A would-be competitor to Microsoft Corp. has done too little to help itself, an attorney for Microsoft indicated through her questions in court Monday. Red Hat Inc., a distributor of the competing Linux operating system, has invested little to either develop applications that would run on Linux or to make third-party applications work, argued Microsoft attorney Stephanie Wheeler. "Didn't Microsoft 's own investment in applications contribute to Windows' success," she asked Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's chief technology operator. | ||
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| #1 By 40 (216.68.248.2) at 3/26/2002 8:33:03 AM |
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Intresting, Red Hat doesn't run Star Office, but runs Windows so that the documents that it creates are compatable with it's clients. What happened to all those 'Open Source' applications that were MS Office compatable?
I saw another quote about security, and how MS is unwilling to release the code that it is using for security on Win2k, and that they are not using industry standards. Last time they release the security informaiton, how many hacks and cracks were released to explote security? |
| #2 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 3/26/2002 11:14:14 AM |
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MrJ412 - Microsoft is an operating system company. Pure and simple.
It's not Microsoft's duty to develop applications for Windows, its not why they are in business. They are around to sell Microsoft Windows. But Microsoft also realized that if they wanted people to adopt Windows they needed software for it. So they went to Lotus, Wordperfect, etc. and asked them to write for Windows. These companies told Microsoft that there wasn't a large enough market there, they would stick with DOS. So Microsoft went off and wrote their own software, called Office, which only ran on Windows. But it provided a compelling reason to people to purchase Windows. Without the applications, Windows would have never sold. It is a symbiotic relationship. That's the point that Microsoft's attorney clearly does understand. Perhaps you should have done your homework. Also the reality is Redhat does not have a sustainable(or intelligent) business model. They will fail if they continue in the direction they are today, with or without Microsoft. |
| #3 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 3/26/2002 8:30:52 PM |
| umm, soda, half of Office (Word, PowerPoint) was Mac only when it was first created. |
| #4 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 3/26/2002 10:37:17 PM |
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Umm, jerk, Excel was Mac only when it was first created... But that wasn't the point, because Office did something that hadn't been done before... the apps interoperated with one another.
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