-----Original Message----- From: Gedi [mailto:gedi@ntlworld.com] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 7:53 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Will Linux ever compete with M$ (OT)
I was at a training course a few days ago. Whilst the rest of the group I was with had wondered off to stretch their leg in the break, I ended up on a discussion with the consultant/training officer about Linux, Unix, programming etc...
He passed a comment that Linux would never make it make it into homes or even onto workstations. The average user will always want microsoft product and far too much investment has been made with microsoft as a whole to warrant changing. His argument was, he was a software developer mainly for industry and virtually 100% of his work is for microsoft based software, even though his company offers development on any platform.
Needless to say we ended up arguing!!
As this list is home to many industry proffesionals, I would love to hear your comments on this.
Was he correct??
Will Linux ever be a real threat to Microsoft, not just in industry, but in the household also?
I wrote a piece about this about six weeks ago - it's at: http://www.ibgames.net/alan/society/linux.html if you are interested. alan -- http://www.ibgames.net/alan Registered Linux user #6822 http://counter.li.org Winding Down - Weekly Tech Newsletter - subscribe at http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/mailing.html