RE: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

Actually, it is NOT monopoly. Microsoft has had the splendid luck of having
really dumb competitors. IBM made Microsoft when it told its customers that
they would need Microchannel PCs to run OS/2. IBM was also stupid enough to
stay with the Intel 286, with the result that Compact brought out the first
386 PC. WordPerfect gave the word-processing market to Microsoft, when they
changed their look and feel for the Windows version of WordPerfect from that
of the DOS version. Lotus killed off Improv and did not incorporate any of
its functionality into 123. Improv was the only software engineered
spreadsheet. 

Some of the competitors first converted from assembly to C, then to C++, and
now to Java. If any one of them had the brains to use Ada, it would have
been a real fight. Sun is now sinking because its brilliant marketing of
Java did nothing to help its operating system, Solaris, which is still in C
and C++. In fact, they have not even replaced the Sparc microprocessor with
a J chip. IBM has embraced Java. This will continue them to deserve their
nickname Inferior But Marketable.

Bob Leif

Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
Email rleif@rleif.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [mailto:ve3wwg@cogeco.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:54 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

Marin David Condic wrote:

...
> I think it would be more productive to look at what made Micro$oft a 
> success and learn their strengths and weaknesses if your aim is to kill 
> Micro$oft. If you really want them to go away, you'll have to become a 
> good, skilled, knowledgable capitalist to do it. GPL won't kill 
> Micro$oft. They'll adapt. Thats what businessmen do. You can't stop the 
> game - just change the rules.
> 
> MDC

Their success?  M O N O P O L Y

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg