[olug] Yahoo! News - Research Firm: Microsoft Will Use Linux by 2004

[Don Kauffman]

Hey Bill,

When I said "more accurate" I was referring to CNN's take on the story. 
However, since you bring up the issue of "Accuracy" has anyone seen the 
actual Meta Group report? I went to their website to locate the actual 
report but it is apparently an industry Paysite only. I don''t qualify 
as an "industry" person at this point in time (being unemployed that 
is). :-(

Here's Rueter's/Forbes take on that report I read through it and noted 
that they don't mention .NET . They do interpret the Meta Group report 
as saying that they expect Microsoft to offer some of its server 
software on linux.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2002/12/09/rtr818343.html

Don
William E. Kempf wrote:

>Don Kauffman said:
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>>Here’s a more accurate assessment of the prediction by the Meta Group
>>regarding M$ apps on Linux.
>>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20021210/bs_nf/20210
>><http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20021210/bs_nf/20210>
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>Accurate?
>
>"As a result, the group said it believes Microsoft will respond by adding
>proprietary apps, including .NET, to a Linux environment beginning in late
>2004."
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>..NET is not an application, nor is it proprietary (it's an ECMA standard,
>and I believe it's slated to be an ISO standard as well).  Not to mention
>..NET has already been mostly ported to Linux by the Mono project, so
>there's little reason for MS to invest any time/effort in this endeavor.
>This statement alone brings into question anything else in the article,
>and I gaurantee you it wasn't made by META.
>
>William E. Kempf
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