Well said, Steve,
You're way beyond me though from my lowly perspective you make very good
observations.
I believe that M$ will use strategies that will exclude if it can not
out right stop. I make that observation based on remarks I've heard
regarding various protocols, such http. Is it true that java runs on any
OS or is there something different about M$ java? M$ is PREDATORY make
no mistake. Do not be encouraged by ANY DOJ actions taken against M$. If
you doubt what I say read one of Gabriel Kolko's works, such as "The
Triumph of Conservatism" for a deeper analysis of what happened in the
rail industry or oil industry, as examples, early in this century and
late in the last century.
Linux is a great OS and the people , who are developing it are doing a
great job.
They are, imho, quietly working under what I would term rather arduous
conditions to make it the best. I don't really hear them boasting.
The analogy may not be a good one, but I recall a place called Dunkirk.
British forces were out gunned and things did not look good, but an
incredible rescue using anything that could float plucked those guys out
of the teeth of the enemy. That enemy foolishly decided not to follow to
the bitter end. I'm greatful that he was so cocky. There have been
others, who could be lumped in of a similar mind, Rockefeller is only
one. He wanted the whole pie to himself and whether I am believed or
not. Another, who those in the UK would be familiar with is Cecil
Rhodes. That man has hand around the throat of a lot of folks from the
grave.
In judo, my understanding is that a smaller person is able to defeat a
larger person, but he must use his opponents strengths against him and
he must do it with intelligence.
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade.
Regards,
Bob
Are you part of "The Matrix"?
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>
> In the recent flurry of Bill Gates quotings posted here of late, I seem
> to recall somewhere that Bill said browsers are becoming to complex and
> sophisticated to be given away for free anymore. Is he saying that
> because he can no longer afford to dump his products onto the market at
> the expense of other start-up competitors, or because he no longer feels
> he has a competitor. Netscape seems to have been pretty well crushed.
> Sure AOL bought Netcenter and partnered with Sun to take over product
> development. I just don't see these organizations being as aggressive
> in producing subsequent versions of the Netscape browser. I have been
> under the impression that Netscape is providing support for
> mozilla.org. My guess is that may be less substantial in the future.
>
> I hope the Netscape servers do continue to be viable options for
> organizations who want relatively easy to use inter/intranet servers.
> There are currently aspects of Netscape's servers that make them
> superior to IIS. Two of these are that Netscape currently does a better
> job supporting PKI, and that Netscape servers run on Unix. I see this
> first gap closing. I don't remember having heard about MS working on a
> 64-bit NT. Solaris 7 *is* 64-bit. This means that, at the medium to
> high end, Unix has a considerable advantage. I warn people not to under
> estimate the value of the small end. That is where a lot of the action
> is likely to happen in the near future, and if you get the revenues from
> the small end, you will have the bucks to break into the high end.
>
> There had been a push to port the Netscape servers to Linux. I believe
> this has been pushed onto the back burner. Again I don't see Sun
> jumping up and down about supporting Linux. MS may fear Linux, but Sun
> *should* fear Linux. At the very high end Sun will probably hold onto
> an advantage for several years. At the ultrasparc II level, a dual
> processor Merced running Linux could probably put a bite into Sun's
> market share. As I remember, Linus said something along the lines of
> '64-bit Linux? No problem! The inherent design of Linux will support
> that naturally.'
>
> I have strayed a bit from where I started this post. To get back to
> browsers, I don't see anybody providing a quality integrated browser
> solution for Linux other than Netscape. Mozilla.org may come through,
> but they haven't produced anything more than beta demos so far. My
> guess is many people don't see the need for many of the bells and
> whistles that modern browsers have. Many of the features of a browser
> are hidden from the user, and are not currently in extensive use. One
> that I am most concerned with is the ability of IE to process VBscript.
> If Bill gets sufficient control of the browser market he can make it so
> that internet servers can be set up to generate pages containing
> VBscript and ActiveX and function with most clients on the internet. If
> that happens all browsers will have to process VBscript and ActiveX in
> order to be viable competitors to IE. Most people won't want to haste
> with trying to find and run anything less capable than IE. In this
> scenario Bill gains a tighter grip on the browser market, which he
> already announced he will be charging you for in the future. Not only
> that, do you really believe MS will provide the Unix community with a
> version of IE that is as reliable and functional as the win32 version?
> I don't. And I don't expect Bill will lift a finger to provide anything
> viable for Linux.
>
> I may just be paranoid. I don't have a full grasp of every aspect of
> this technology, but I am going through IIS training, and have worked
> with both Apache and SuiteSpot. I have worked with NT since it was in
> Beta, and have also worked with Novell, Solaris (sparc and x86), and
> Linux. Not to mention DOS and Windows 3.1. My instincts tell me there
> is a real danger here.
>
> For those who like to tell me that major organizations cannot run
> reliably on NT, I checked today. The Network I am on is world wide, and
> has more than 70 NT domains. I don't have NT related problems very
> often on this network. I am not trying to sell NT. I *am* getting my
> MCSE because I believe it is a professionally prudent thing to do. I
> like Linux. It smells like freedom to me, and I love freedom. I'm just
> trying to get some sober thinking going on about these subjects.
>
> Steve
>
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