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invertiga · 02-05-2006, 06:55 PM

A major share no. All you need to do is look around at how many big business's still use old software written in freakin fortran or cobol. It's financially stupid to upgrade from these ancient programs.

Now for a second consider how many ten's of millions of computers are running windows, or business's that rely on software written for it. There's no way another o/s will take away a "major share" of the market, its almost impossible.

And just because some distributions of *nix is free don't make any difference, there is still billions of $ in labour and downtime costs that people always fail to take into account when considereing if another O/S can make a major impact.

We'll be working with M/Soft for a long time yet.

02-05-2006, 06:55 PM
invertiga Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: BNEQLDAUS Posts: 477	A major share no. All you need to do is look around at how many big business's still use old software written in freakin fortran or cobol. It's financially stupid to upgrade from these ancient programs. Now for a second consider how many ten's of millions of computers are running windows, or business's that rely on software written for it. There's no way another o/s will take away a "major share" of the market, its almost impossible. And just because some distributions of *nix is free don't make any difference, there is still billions of $ in labour and downtime costs that people always fail to take into account when considereing if another O/S can make a major impact. We'll be working with M/Soft for a long time yet.