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- From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: Re: DISMANTLE MICROSOFT (Was Re: Industry market shares)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.151425.2063@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:14:25 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.160142.7877@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1993Jan22.073622.21914@reed.edu> <2445@snap>
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- In article <2445@snap> paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.073622.21914@reed.edu> orpheus@reed.edu (P. Hawthorne) writes:
- >
- >> If the U.S. Government can't or wont stand up to them, who can or will?
- >
- >
- >Actually, I sort of suspect that Microsoft is about to drown in its
- >own waste product (MS-DOS).
- >
- >We have just reached the point where a standard PC is Unix-capable.
- >Meanwhile Unix is making major inroads in the traditional business
- >mini/mainframe market. Any month now DP managers are going to notice
- >that they can run the same OS on everything from the corporate
- >mainframe to the clerk's PC, and that this OS comes with networking,
- >email, file sharing, multi-tasking, GUIs and any other buzzword they
- >pick (and its an "open system" as well).
- >
- >The thing that stands in the way of this dream is the current practice
- >of marketing Unix spreadsheets etc at 2-5 times the price of the
- >equivalent MS-DOS version (if at all). But if a few major
- >organisations go for Unix PCs (they can negotiate organisation
- >licenses for these things, at saner prices) then we should reach the
- >boostrap point and Microsoft is doomed.
- >
- >If you have any shares in Microsoft, sell them now.
- >
- >Followups redirected to comp.misc
- >
- >Paul.
- >
- >--
- >Paul Johnson (paj@gec-mrc.co.uk). | Tel: +44 245 73331 ext 3245
- >--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------
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- Nope, sorry, isn't going to happen. At best, unix might get a bigger niche
- in the desk-top world but nt much. A system in the lines of os/2 or (Ick!)
- Windows NT will fulfill the new fuction of os in the future for the standard
- "PC"
- Logical or not, thats probably whats going to happen.
- Rob Merritt
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