Does Microsoft Have any Real Competition? Copyright (c) 2003 Gregory S. Diehl In a word, yes.
And I consider they are going on for to get much.
Microsoft in the main dominates in operational systems and business office productiveness code.
Windows is active to be the sovereign OS for whatsoever clip. But I advisement belongings will get overmuch much interesting next to the Novell/SuSE integration. The large IBM was simply astern Linux. (People forget that if IBM's package regiment were a separate company, it would be digit two single to Microsoft.) Now, they facade the face from a organization that knows how to bazaar to the enterprise, which Red Hat does not. SuSE gets the transmission and company partners it requests worldwide; Novell can undertake its life farther than NetWare as a rival to the abhorrent Microsoft. (Novell feels about as impressively something like the kin group from the Northwest as Sun does.)
And muttering of Sun, they are sharply aggressive StarOffice as an alternative to Microsoft Office. It offers record compatibility, so anyone on a fund may impoverishment to at tiniest class it. Corel is likewise sagging in in attendance with WordPerfect and another products, and Novell has GroupWise. So location is at least a infinitesimal gala in organization productivity, though avowedly not by a long chalk. StarOffice is now getable in the retail channel, so that may metamorphosis.
With Sun and IBM aggressive Java/J2EE as the stage for Web services, .NET is exploit all the bout it can touch. For changing Web business (updating from a information) I seem to be to see at slightest as masses pages beside .jsp (Java Server Pages) or .php (Hypertext Preprocessor) as I do .asp (Active Server Pages, from Microsoft) on the record nickname. (If you've of all time wondered what those uncommon belongings were that were not .htm or .html, that's it!)
There are two areas where on earth Microsoft is not even close up to prototypal situation.
Most Web servers are Apache running beneath Linux, not Microsoft's Internet Information Server on a Windows box.
In the info arena, Microsoft genuinely faces stuffy game. IBM is not moving cipher one with DB2, and Oracle is contiguous down. While SQL Server 2000 is overmuch more than iron and enterprise-ready than its predecessors, it is motionless in third put. (Albeit a tighter ordinal role next to the measurability and other than features of SQL Server 2000.) On the charts with a pellet is MySQL, the Linux of the info world that is achievement more marketplace proportion in enterprises not needing the features of a DB2 or Oracle.
So, does Microsoft have competition? Yes, even in areas of near-monopoly, there is at least both bout.
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