eWEEK Mag has a story running about MS informing the SEC it will have to lower pricing
Wednesday, February 12, 2003 by IPlural | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Microsoft has admitted it will have to lower pricing across the board on
it's core products because of the shift to OpenSource both Nationally and
Internationally.
US Airforce said to me pushing a move toward open technologies for a more secure, stable, hardened system.South Africa, Great Britain, France, Germany, China, Australia and Brazil are some of the Nations who have turned to OpenSource over Microsoft for their agencies...
I guess the lower prices, if they filter down to consumer level will be a good thing...
it's core products because of the shift to OpenSource both Nationally and
Internationally.
US Airforce said to me pushing a move toward open technologies for a more secure, stable, hardened system.South Africa, Great Britain, France, Germany, China, Australia and Brazil are some of the Nations who have turned to OpenSource over Microsoft for their agencies...
I guess the lower prices, if they filter down to consumer level will be a good thing...
IPlural
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:51 AM
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:51 AM
it should be: Air Force said to ( be ) not [ me ]
freaking spell checker
freaking spell checker
werewolf
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:52 AM
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:52 AM
'me' was spelled correctly so why would a spell checker have found that?
IPlural
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:53 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:53 AM
werewolf
I feel the same way " if " : notsure :
Should be interesting to see what takes place over the next year for sure.
I feel the same way " if " : notsure :
Should be interesting to see what takes place over the next year for sure.
da_zman20
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:47 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:47 PM
open source on windows??? or other products... come on it's micro$0ft... im a little confused... is this a dream... where am I... everything is so... so... cloudy... oh it's just that time of year... micosoft will come to thier senses... it's just a game they are playing to get more money... honestly... if windows were open soure people would be able to get it for free... microsoft would never be able to go for that...
werewolf
Reply #6 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:52 PM
Reply #6 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:52 PM
no, no...MS isn't going open source. Redmond is just saying that since there is now some viable competition, MS is going to have to lower costs in order to compete.
IPlural
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:28 PM
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:28 PM
yeah, have to let the SEC know because Share holders are going to hit the roof!
IPlural
Reply #8 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:40 PM
Reply #8 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:40 PM
that and their financial projections will end up being all wackybobo, SEC will have all kinds of flags flaying...
Here is the projected growth of the installation base 2001 - 2006:
Microsoft = +15.2%
UNIX = -5%
Linux = +24.7%
More and more governments and institutions, graphics shops are going Linux or Open-BSD now. They can not afford the licensing and such with their growth and such.
I guess they will have to start trading on the abilities in producing solid functioning software in the future and not on size and name alone.
I mean hell, they have a hell of a beta program, multi-tier even, the last one being public final releaser
's you pay for which in fact turn out to be betas with a different label.
Here is the projected growth of the installation base 2001 - 2006:
Microsoft = +15.2%
UNIX = -5%
Linux = +24.7%
More and more governments and institutions, graphics shops are going Linux or Open-BSD now. They can not afford the licensing and such with their growth and such.
I guess they will have to start trading on the abilities in producing solid functioning software in the future and not on size and name alone.
I mean hell, they have a hell of a beta program, multi-tier even, the last one being public final releaser
's you pay for which in fact turn out to be betas with a different label.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:46 AM