Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:36:35 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Robert Clark" <res03db2@gte.net>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>, "Joey Garcia" <bear@unix.homeip.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Anyone going to Comdex next week? Message-ID: <003e01c16cdf$16635540$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011112224943.K69342@darkstar.gte.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Robert Clark >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:50 PM >To: Terry Lambert >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Brett Glass; jgrosch@mooseriver.com; Joey Garcia; >questions@FreeBSD.ORG; chat@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Anyone going to Comdex next week? > > >Will MS ever bee in a bad enough situation that they are a lower >state of energy than Linux? > >If they get into this state, won't a big part of the reason to >stay with Linux dissapear? > There's been a trend in the market for companies to get successful by entering the market at the bottom - by making products that were of most interest to small customers. Then they get successful, and start making products that are more attractive to larger customers that they can sell for more money. THey start forgetting the smaller customers. Then after a while they are just making products for enterprise customers that sell for an obscene amount of money, and they leave even more customers behind. Meanwhile, other companies have moved in are are working their way up the chain. The ones at the top get pushed out, go through massive contractions and selloff of unprofitable divisions, then start down at the bottom all over again. That seems to have happened to IBM if you count their involvement in Linux as a bottom end thing. I think by the time that MS is in a bad situation, Linux will take a team of engineers with certifications and a $10K budget to install. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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