Michael Jardeen: ...one OS to rule them all!The saga of a company, a bunch of lawsuits, lawyers, competitors, <br>and...oh yea, sometimes some software.(Untitled)- August 23, 2003 China blocks foreign software A new policy from China's governing body states that all government ministries must buy only locally produced software at the next upgrade cycle. The State Council's move, aimed at breaking the dominance of Microsoft on desktop computers, will eliminate Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite from hundreds of thousands of Chinese government computers over the next few years. Gao Zhigang, an official with the Procurement Center of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100258/categories/inTheLandOfMsWhereShadowsLie/2003/08/23.html#a... (Untitled)- August 16, 2003 "IT...Full Employment Act" ...Why are Linux computers gaining in popularity with large organizations while Macs, which are based after all on BSD Unix, aren't... ...Adopting Linux allows organizations to increase their IT efficiency without requiring the IT department to increase ITS efficiency. It takes just as many nerds to support 100 Linux boxes as 100 Windows boxes, yet Linux boxes are cheaper and can support more users. The organization is better off while the IT department is unscathed.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100258/categories/inTheLandOfMsWhereShadowsLie/2003/08/15.html#a... (Untitled)- August 9, 2003 SCO - Death Without Dignity Once upon a time, very long ago, a company named Microsoft set out to create a version of Unix for personal computers, and they named it Xenix. Thus begins a long and very twisted tale....more AAXNet Issues If you have the time give it a read. It's an interesting if biased look a the twisted world of software development, and the history of Unix. As usual M$ has their fingers all over this. I love the part about how they paid off SCO for the license, and SCO then.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100258/categories/inTheLandOfMsWhereShadowsLie/2003/08/09.html#a... (Untitled)- August 4, 2003 Guess what Microsoft won In his 2001 book, "Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era," John Heilemann wrote: "We are already witnessing the end of Microsoft as we know it...with the dotcom boom, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's position seems, if not tenuous, then increasingly peripheral. The real estate it controls, the PC desktop, remains the most valuable territory on the digital map. But, as everyone can see, with the rise of the Net, the universe.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100258/categories/inTheLandOfMsWhereShadowsLie/2003/08/03.html#a... (Untitled)- August 1, 2003 The Numbers Didn't Lie... Read this attack on the PC FUD weenies who attacked Apple for it's numbers when it introduced the G5. So who really should eat crow The real answer is that for the first time in several years you have a real speed competition between Apple and the Wintel world. Time will tell where this one goes...mjhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100258/categories/inTheLandOfMsWhereShadowsLie/2003/07/31.html#a... |