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Odd SagaOdd SagaPosted Jun 17, 2004 13:40 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)In reply to: Odd Saga by shredwheat Parent article: Microsoft Loses Munich Contract to Linux (Bloomberg) Hate to say this, but any time Microsoft starts yammering that someone's gone "over budget" trying to transition away from Microsoft (and that's assuming Munich actually did this,) or away from *any* proprietary system for that matter, it's time to start questioning the ethics of the proprietor. These days, there should be no reason for software to *not* be plug-compatable with other software, no matter the vendor. Other than greed.
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Odd Saga Posted Jun 18, 2004 2:00 UTC (Fri) by sidboyce (guest, #10891) [Link] When competition rears its head, customers' tunnel vision eventually fades, next the incumbent supplier tries to defeat the competition with FUD, lastly the incumbent chooses a path to ruin. That was the situation IBM found itself in when it had defeated the mainframe alternatives, they won the battle, but their ship was badly holed.Increasingly Microsoft will find its customers asking for interoperability with Linux and other open source, failure to comply will initiate their decline. Their customers by and large don't yet realise the landscape is changing, but they will and their attitudes will shift dramatically, trickle then gush.
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