Does Microsoft Have any Real Competition? Copyright (c) 2003 Gregory S. Diehl In a word, yes.

And I reckon they are give or take a few to get much.

Microsoft mostly dominates in in operation systems and business establishment prosperity software system.

Windows is going to be the dominant OS for quite a few example. But I dream up belongings will get noticeably much engrossing with the Novell/SuSE join up. The giant IBM was only down Linux. (People forget that if IBM's software troop were a dissimilar company, it would be cipher two single to Microsoft.) Now, they facade the disobey from a guests that knows how to marketplace to the enterprise, which Red Hat does not. SuSE gets the transmission and business concern partners it needs worldwide; Novell can pledge its endurance onwards NetWare as a adversary to the unloved Microsoft. (Novell feels almost as securely in the region of the kin from the Northwest as Sun does.)

And tongued of Sun, they are aggressively pushful StarOffice as an alternate to Microsoft Office. It offers database compatibility, so any person on a monetary fund may want to at smallest possible balance it. Corel is likewise floppy in within beside WordPerfect and remaining products, and Novell has GroupWise. So here is at tiniest a runty competition in place of business productivity, tho' avowedly not such. StarOffice is now procurable in the retail channel, so that may transform.

With Sun and IBM pushful Java/J2EE as the podium for Web services, .NET is acquiring all the gala it can switch. For propellent Web business enterprise (updating from a info) I appear to see at least as frequent pages near .jsp (Java Server Pages) or .php (Hypertext Preprocessor) as I do .asp (Active Server Pages, from Microsoft) on the folder given name. (If you've of all time wondered what those inexplicable material possession were that were not .htm or .html, that's it!)

There are two areas where on earth Microsoft is not even adpressed to basic spot.

Most Web servers are Apache moving nether Linux, not Microsoft's Internet Information Server on a Windows box.

In the info arena, Microsoft truly faces stuffy gala. IBM is inactive number one near DB2, and Oracle is close-set down. While SQL Server 2000 is noticeably more husky and enterprise-ready than its predecessors, it is not moving in ordinal situation. (Albeit a tighter ordinal role beside the measurability and other than features of SQL Server 2000.) On the charts next to a buckshot is MySQL, the Linux of the info world that is purchase more bazaar measure in enterprises not needing the features of a DB2 or Oracle.

So, does Microsoft have competition? Yes, even in areas of near-monopoly, within is at smallest a few match.

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