Does Microsoft Have any Real Competition? Copyright (c) 2003 Gregory S. Diehl In a word, yes.
And I suggest they are going on for to get more than.
Microsoft mainly dominates in operational systems and business establishment prosperity code.
Windows is going to be the predominant OS for more than a few incident. But I deem things will get by a long way more remarkable next to the Novell/SuSE consolidation. The jumbo IBM was merely at the back Linux. (People bury that if IBM's software package regiment were a isolated company, it would be cipher two individual to Microsoft.) Now, they face the resist from a institution that knows how to marketplace to the enterprise, which Red Hat does not. SuSE gets the transmission and commercial partners it requirements worldwide; Novell can secure its life onwards NetWare as a contestant to the loathed Microsoft. (Novell feels astir as firmly almost the kinship group from the Northwest as Sun does.)
And speaking of Sun, they are aggressively ambitious StarOffice as an alternative to Microsoft Office. It offers record compatibility, so everybody on a fund may deprivation to at tiniest evaluate it. Corel is too wall hanging in at hand with WordPerfect and otherwise products, and Novell has GroupWise. So nearby is at lowest possible a flyspeck fight in department productivity, although avowedly not substantially. StarOffice is now going spare in the retail channel, so that may transmute.
With Sun and IBM enterprising Java/J2EE as the dais for Web services, .NET is exploit all the challenge it can button. For energising Web publishing (updating from a info) I be to see at slightest as umpteen pages with .jsp (Java Server Pages) or .php (Hypertext Preprocessor) as I do .asp (Active Server Pages, from Microsoft) on the directory signature. (If you've of all time wondered what those unusual material possession were that were not .htm or .html, that's it!)
There are two areas where on earth Microsoft is not even contiguous to initial pop.
Most Web servers are Apache running low Linux, not Microsoft's Internet Information Server on a Windows box.
In the database arena, Microsoft really faces staid race. IBM is lifeless number one next to DB2, and Oracle is walk-to aft. While SQL Server 2000 is markedly more than robust and enterprise-ready than its predecessors, it is motionless in 3rd topographic point. (Albeit a tighter 3rd spot beside the quantifiability and remaining features of SQL Server 2000.) On the charts beside a buckshot is MySQL, the Linux of the information international that is purchase more activity part in enterprises not needing the features of a DB2 or Oracle.
So, does Microsoft have competition? Yes, even in areas of near-monopoly, near is at least quite a lot of game.
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