The coming OS Wars
Yahoo! News - Kill Bill predicts that the battle has just begun between IBM, pushing Linux, and Windows.
How is it that for eight months a team of up to a dozen IBM consultants has been toiling in the data centers and computer rooms of the Munich city government--free of charge? Having goaded Munich into embracing open-source software, IBM is helping it plan a migration of 14,000 computers off Microsoft Windows and onto the operating system known as Linux (news - web sites). Never mind that IBM doesn't sell Linux, which is distributed free. And never mind that Munich officials say they're not committed to buying IBM hardware or consulting services, despite all IBM's free help.
one statistic mentioned is that in 1986, when MS went public, it had a market cap of less than a billion, compared to $93 billion for IBM. Today, MS stands at $280 billion, compared to $146 billion for IBM.
posted by Duncan @ 9:30 PM
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