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| Time: 11:22 EST/16:22 GMT | News Source: IT Director | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Now Microsoft has stepped in and licensed the source code and patents associated with the Unix operating system from SCO. The stated purpose is to ensure that Microsoft's software complies with SCO's intellectual-property rights and that it can ensure compatibility with Unix software. However, few people believe that to be the major reason for the deal. Most probably, Microsoft wants to stir up the whole argument in the hope of stemming the Linux tide.
Chris Sontag of SCO immediately claimed that the Microsoft licensing agreement reflected the strength of its intellectual-property suit against IBM. I'm not sure how his logic works here. If IBM already has a license - irrevocable, fully paid up, perpetual etc. then the real implication is that Microsoft was worried that it might have infringed intellectual property. This is possible as Microsoft developed its own version of Unix in the 1980s.
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/21/2003 11:50:39 AM |
| It's very hard to stop a glacier! |
| #2 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at 5/21/2003 12:13:29 PM |
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The zero growth actually represents infinite momentum as the number of parallel universes (in the infintine universes theory) approaches infinity.
So, at any given point in time (time is irrelevent, but for the sake of this argument...) there are an infinite number of universes in which Linux was, has always, and always will be the king. So, we can assume that because Linux is king somewhere, it's king everywhere. Thus, zero momentum is actually infinite momentum and Microsoft never existed and is only an anomaly that exists because of the proximity of universes in which Microsoft is king to our universe. Therefore, Linux is king. If you followed that logic, then you are truly a Penguinista :) |
| #3 By 1896 (208.61.158.208) at 5/21/2003 12:39:53 PM |
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"Odd you might think that they didn't try to sue Red Hat and SuSE who are now the major Linux distributors"
Not so odd considering the "financial weight" of IBM compared to Red Hat and SuSE. I mean people unable to control their appetite sue McDonald's and not "Fritzly" or "John Smith" hamburger. |
| #4 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at 5/21/2003 2:27:16 PM |
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#5: Wow, I don't know what world that guy's living in but I do consulting, and I'm in a fairly techie-liberal town with not a strong love for Microsoft (or any big business, for that matter... you know, liberals), and I've been to several companies in the past month (fairly large companies) and the only Linux installations are usually a desktop or two in the IT department, but it's not being used for anything in production.
There may be armies of cheap-o linux web servers serving up static HTML and dog-slow PHP/Mysql, but it's not winning anything that counts. MS is gaining share in the enterprise market like crazy and pushing out Sun and other Unix faster than they can count. IBM is desperately trying to stem the flood by grabbing at anything, like Linux to throw it out there, but it's not working very well. I still don't see Linux anywhere on the TPC. Linux isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so I don't know what that dude is smoking |
| #5 By 61 (65.32.171.144) at 5/21/2003 2:50:15 PM |
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Daz:
Except you can not assume that Linux is king any parallel universe (although, you can not assume that it isn't either). There may be an infinite number of univserses, but just because Linux is king one of them does not make it king in all of them.... thus it is very much a flawed logic (which,of course, was your intent, I'm sure) :) |
| #6 By 7797 (63.76.44.99) at 5/21/2003 3:40:43 PM |
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Try reading this:
http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html |
| #7 By 6859 (206.156.242.36) at 5/21/2003 5:31:17 PM |
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8 years is significant when measured against the lifetime Linux has existed-- 12 years.
I can say we here have approximately 6 to 12 Linux machines (Slackware), and they're doing duties that are "commonplace," making them not irreplacable. They're not workhorses. This is significant because we're one of the largest companies in our area (and we're multinational.) Linux is cool and all, but it's not the end all of computing. |
| #8 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 5/21/2003 7:04:55 PM |
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We're one of the top five banks and brokerages in the country and the only place we have Linux installed is on preconfigured single purpose servers. When we buy firewalls and IDS servers, we buy the hardware, OS and application as a package. The OS is Linux. Given the scale of our computing requirements from 80,000 plus workstations to IBM mainframes, the number of computers running Linux amounts to less than 1%.
The fact is that Microsoft continues to be a bigger part of the total computing expenditure pie in our enterprise year after year. The drivers are the ease of developing in house for the platform (where that makes sense) and the overwhelming number of applications written for the platform in our industry. We just don't see applications in our industry being written in any great number for anything Unix (in fact, less and less applications seemed to be written for anything Unix year over year). Where that is the case, the Microsoft based solution has won, most often, when comparing the total cost of hardware, OS, application(s), and support. Nevertheless, with our mainframe requirements, IBM gets the largest slice of our computing dollar. |
| #9 By 7797 (64.244.109.161) at 5/21/2003 7:54:26 PM |
| parker: go ahead disregard the whole paper and anything in it. its all lies i tell you LIES LIES LIES. ( what a *##$#@$ing *$&#@#$ ) |
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