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| sweetjimmyhugs |
5/25/04, 12:23 PM EDT |
The only problem with that, rlhamon, is that Apple software requires Apple hardware. Most companies that want to go cheap are going to go with an x86/Linux solution, not a Mac solution. While I would love to see every Fortune 500 company using Macs, I just don't see that as a reality in the foreseeable future. But hey, I can only see 10 seconds into the future anyway.
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| HTML Samurai |
5/25/04, 1:14 PM EDT |
sweetjimmyhugs:
I totally agree! Except for the seeing into the future part. You know that on a clear day, you can easily see 12 seconds into the future... ;-)
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| jhrs |
5/25/04, 11:46 PM EDT |
Linux will level the playing field. Especially when IBM releases powerful PPC based hardware running the Linux OS.
If IBM gets the kinks worked out of their chip fabrication plant and produces processors for lower cost than AMD or Intel can, this will also give IBM hardware a meaningful price advantage also.
There will be a proliferation of PowerPC optimized software for Linux that should be a relatively straight forward port to OS X. If much porting is even required in the first place as Apple may might build such functionality into OS X.
Apple will be much more competitive in such an environment and Microsoft at a substantial disadvantage. I suspect that porting a PowerPC based Unix app. to x86 based Windows is not a trivial task.
Linux/x86 may not be the most cost effective solution in the future. Linux/PPC is poised to assume that role.
For those who desire a more elegant solution to run Linux/PPC applications, OS X will be able to do it also.
The Apple platform will come with other niceties like iTunes, iDVD, GarageBand and whatever else Jobs and all have cooking up.
I guess I don't see Linux as much of a threat to Apple is to Microsoft. Apple knows how to innovate and keep ahead. While Linux applications designed to copy Apple's functionality will inevitably come, they will be late and likely poor imitations.
Much like the iPod and the many other copycats. We all know how well the other players like the Dell Jukebox are competing in this market also.
I guess I don't see the downside. Now, if IBM is unable to deliver, then Apple has much bigger problems on its hands than Linux.
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| sweetjimmyhugs |
5/26/04, 11:47 AM EDT |
If any *nix moved into the work place it would benefit Apple. Hell the only people who won't benefit are M$ share holders.
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| rlhamon |
5/26/04, 12:04 PM EDT |
Well SJH you touched on something there most corporations exec have stock in Microsoft so I doubt that they would be willing to do anything to hurt their investment. So I think that anything that could be damaging to Microsoft would be prevented.
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| nhmacusr |
5/26/04, 2:08 PM EDT |
I think the largest hurdle to getting linux on the desktop in corporate America is still the interoperability of the office suite. Open Office is an excellent program, but it isn't a Microsoft replacement, in the fact that not everything is 100% compatible. Many corporations have thousands of templates and custom word macros. It would be a major task to convert over. Until Microsoft opens up their formats (a cold day in hell) open source will always be playing catchup (i.e. reverse engineering) which is a slow process.
Apple doesn't have the compatibility problems, but they just can't beat the volume pricing of the big vendors (Dell etc). Apple can't compete with a $300 dollar computer. This doesn't matter as much when you are buying machines for a shop of 25, but it does make a difference when you are buying mchines for 10,000. Apples delivery performance, as of late, with hardware is not giving many CEOs a warm fuzzy either.
Linux will continue to make large contributions in the server world. An interesting aside is the number of people that are preferring a Mac to administer large Linux server farms. I use one for that (although our collection of servers isn't very large) and I will never go back. The next 24 months should be interesting.
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