Honestly, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft and all the big boys have been "taking Linux seriously" for the past decade.
Apple can't penetrate the server market - no matter how hard they try. Although they dont use the linux kernel per se, they do understand the advantages of leveraging and releasing open source components (WebKit anyone?) Microsoft categorizes all their market reports in the following categories: 1)Google, 2)Apple, 3)Linux/Opensource, 4)other. That should tell you a lot about their view of the competing world. Oracle is all about running their stuff on Linux. Although every single one of these companies is "propietary" in nature, believe me when I tell you that everyone takes Linux seriously. That whole idea of being a crappy hobby basement project was left in the 90s and everyone takes it seriously. Ragi > Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 20:42:13 -0700 > From: Paul Saenz <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] No future for adobe products in linux? > To: SoCal LUG Users List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I didn't mean to say that Microsoft would go under. They have been sinking a > little bit, and maybe they will sink a little more. I just meant that they > have been loosing part of the market, and I think thats great. Linux is > making inroads with Ubuntu ( grant it it's not real major) and Android, and > although Linux is not really trashing Microsoft or Apple, they are coming to > a point where those companies have to take Linux seriously. I'm glad for > that. > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Trevor Benedict <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't see Microsoft sinking anytime soon, maybe in 15-25 years. One >> of the main reasons is because its a stable name, and the product of >> Microsoft is well known. Apple is starting to do the same thing, there >> name and product is getting to be well known, but still has a long >> ways to go. With Linux and Open Source Software , its a moving target. >> Between Redhat, SuSE/Novel, and Ubuntu things are always changing. The >> most stable thing in the Linux OSS world is the name "Redhat", even >> Open Office is in flux. How many years till Ubuntu gets replaced by >> something else? We even have 2 competing desktops, or how long till >> Xorg is replaced by something else? OSS is not stable, and normal >> people want stable, most definitely business. >> -- MrEcho >> >> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I think Great is an appropriate word. Since Microsoft is no longer the >> 800 >>> pound gorilla in the room, or in other words a "sinking ship" at best, if >>> adobe jumps on board to bail water, then maybe the will sink together >> into >>> greater depths. Let's hope for the best. Hopefully open source developers >>> will see this as an opportunity to bring video apps up to par like other >>> apps such as MySQL, Php, and other web apps. As Ubuntu has made a major >>> breakthrough in the desktop world for linux I think there is good >>> possibilities for the open source community. >>> >>> Don't get me wrong. I don't hate Microsoft. Competition is fun. It's also >>> fun to be on the winning team. Microsoft cuts throat to get on top. >>> Personally I think it is great when the guy who does an honest job starts >> to >>> get ahead. How is it that the cut throats are on top of the world, and >> the >>> honest workers are supposed to be satisfied groveling on the bottom rung? >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Great, now the two software products that suck the most are coming >>>> from the same company >>>> (Flash and Windows). >>>> >>>> Chris... >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Sounds to me like they're running scared. Lol >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Microsoft buying Adobe? >>>>>> >>>>>> http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6846369/281173/327661/0/ >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Jeff Lasman >>>>>> Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 >>>>>> Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only >>>>>> Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: >>>>>> "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; >>>>>>
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