About time...

[sdyates]

When OS4.0 comes out, we all need to supprt and buy it and start showing our friends again like those years before.

There appears to be several hardware platforms to run OS4.0, hopefully the cost won't be crazy and there will be divx support.

I have shown a few friends my beefed up A3000, without a processor accelerator and they are amazed at what it can do still, a computer some 17 years old!

If we get a hardware and software platform beofre Christmas, then I think it can do well, but we all must be willing to shell out the money if we trully want to see it move forward and not just complain, ponder the past and wish we had something. I can promise you it won't be everything to everyone, nothing ever is. But this may be our last chance...

[shillard]

sdyates wrote:
When OS4.0 comes out, we all need to supprt and buy it and start showing our friends again like those years before.

Oh well, at least we'll all have plenty of time to save up.

Open an account today - over a couple of centuries, compound interest can work wonders.....

[Colani1200]

shillard wrote:

Most are forced to use the Windows platform for business - it is entrenched now.
Fantasies of an Amiga resurrection, Linux coup, etc are just that - fantasies.  Ain't gonna happen.  The corporate world runs on Windows, and society will therefore demand that the education system runs on windows, and that homes run on windows.

I disagree. In fact, things are finally changing - at least from what I can tell here in Germany. Companies as well as officials are fed up with being dependent on the mood of one single company. Linux could be found on the server for a long time, but there are more and more desktop installations on business and also government PCs. Best example is the city of Munich.

[shillard]

Colani1200 wrote:
I disagree. In fact, things are finally changing - at least from what I can tell here in Germany. Companies as well as officials are fed up with being dependent on the mood of one single company. Linux could be found on the server for a long time, but there are more and more desktop installations on business and also government PCs. Best example is the city of Munich.

Dude, one locust doesn't make a swarm.

Next some Mac enthusiast will post a link showing how his local high school or university has switched from Windows to Mac - big deal.

Take a look at the top 500 global companies, and see how many run Mac, Linux or some other non-MS platform on their desktop PCs.

My guess is you won't need to take your shoes off to count them all.


Operating systems are a commodity, and commodity markets are dominated by those with the strength in distribution channels, the marketing clout to dominate, and the consumer recognition.

Windows is to computers as iPod is to MP3 players.  Creative, BenQ, etc might make MP3 players that walk all over the iPod, but they're never going to get 85% market share.

Game over.

[Colani1200]

shillard wrote:

Dude, one locust doesn't make a swarm.

Next some Mac enthusiast will post a link showing how his local high school or university has switched from Windows to Mac - big deal.

Err..... I think you should know Munich, even if you're from down under.

Operating systems are a commodity, and commodity markets are dominated by those with the strength in distribution channels, the marketing clout to dominate, and the consumer recognition.

I'm not talking about consumers. We all know that they're stupid (that makes them buy the iPod instead of a better player, nice example.) I'm talking about companies and governments and thus about political decisions. And btw, I guess the ftp sites of the various Linux distors are amongst the strongest distribution channels you'll find.  ;-)

[shillard]

For every user of a Linux download channel, there are a hundred thousand bozos who just want to download porn and next week's episode of LOST off the net.

They drive the market - not the likes of thee and me.