[Am-info] ... the market is slowly turning its back against Redmond

[Gene Gaines]

http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=709068

The Real Antitrust Trial: On Store Shelves
                         
Microsoft may win or lose in court, but the software giant just
might be showing signs of mortality in the marketplace.

Mark Hall, Computerworld
Friday, July 05, 2002

Let's not speculate about what U.S. District Court Judge Colleen
Kollar-Kotelly will decide later this summer about Microsoft's
fate. That's an academic exercise about a ruling that's certain to
be appealed. Instead, let's look at how the market is judging the
company. After all, you can't appeal the decision of the
marketplace. And it looks to me like the market is slowly turning
its back against Redmond.

Let's start with operating systems. Despite nearly two years of
intensive development, loads of incentives, and far better costs,
users of high-end systems (those demanding more than eight
processors) aren't embracing Windows 2000 Datacenter. Microsoft
acknowledges the situation and continues to work hard on breaking
deeper into the data center, but IT managers remain wedded to Unix
or IBM's mainframe z/OS for their biggest, most complex, and most
important applications.

... and there's more ...


Gene Gaines
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
Sterling, Virginia  USA


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