[dba-Tech] m$oft & netbooks

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Aug 15 10:55:58 CDT 2009


Would you expect any less? 

One of the most expense components when selling an inexpensive note books is
the OS. Adding a Microsoft OS and Office package effectively doubles or
triples the price of the unit... there is simply no way MS can effective (or
fairly) compete.

To Microsoft's credit they have been give special deals to computer students
at the universities. There is one reality and that is that students are poor
and universities are strapped for cash. So instead on going out and
purchasing a Microsoft suite of development tools the university just
download a Linux distro and Java and these packages are what is used to
teach the students.

Microsoft have fought back by releasing express versions of their
development suite for free but it is going to take a long time before there
is a positive impact on Java's absolute dominance of the language market.

Jim

 
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