"France is getting a very good business model, using open source software to reduce IT costs and selling the software and solutions they develop for themselves to neighbouring countries for a fraction of what MS will sell their solutions for, yet the software will be much more customized for Europe's needs. "
There just starting, not close to complete...and your saying there saving money already?
"Japan/China/Korea are making an operating system to suit their needs without spending as much as they would need to, and they'll be able to sell that to people/organizations. "
There just starting too with no real progress, damn your good at predicting the future. And don't forget japan's 8.6 million "investment" will get you 86 engineers for 1 year with salary/expense...I just don't see the odds.
"FUDey? I'm just speaking from experience"
Are you blind, cuz MS is the best out ther if your disabled...it has a LOT of accesibilty features...txt to speach, maginifier, etc.
"it's hard to make things in Windows automatic unless the application has explicit support for it."
No, your experience has served you wrong...i've worked with disabled people on SW deployments.
"I've had to rely on VNC a lot and it's hard to administer a Windows server without being on-site."
If you can't do it over VNC...what the hell do you mean...what can't you administer? You want windows to change the backup tape for you automatically?
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This post was edited by humor on Saturday, June 26, 2004 at 03:13.
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