Odd Saga

Odd Saga

Posted Jun 18, 2004 2:00 UTC (Fri) by sidboyce (guest, #10891)
In reply to: Odd Saga by ccchips
Parent article: Microsoft Loses Munich Contract to Linux (Bloomberg)

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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