Algunas palabras de Bill Gates

Este es un recorte de uan entrevista realizada a Bill Gates
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Where does Linux fit into the picture?
Linux--which is only a kernel--is not where the interesting stuff is going on
nowadays.
Linux is what Unix was in the 1970s: a perfectly reasonable operating system.
There\'s a lot being done with it. Of the two operating systems that are gaining
share, one is called Linux and one is called Windows. And Linux is wiping up
Unix\'s share while our overall share has continued to grow somewhat. Clearly,
at the server level there\'ll be intense competition where (companies) like IBM
put WebSphere on top of Linux. That\'s very expensive and we just put the app
server into Windows. And then people can do the value comparisons.

But with IBM pushing Linux, isn\'t there customer interest because they can
offer a wider solution?
What do you mean by \"wider?\" Wider in terms of being more expensive? Wider in
terms of the number of consultants required? What\'s wider mean in this case?

They\'re putting multibillions of dollars behind the Linux initiative.
But what does that mean? They don\'t develop (Linux). Now they charge people to
run software on top of Linux and services.

Right. But now they\'re pushing Linux for the desktop.
People have had Linux on the desktop for a long time. It\'s not a substantial
share of what\'s going on at the desktop.

So at the end of the day it\'s the Unix guys who are feeling the greater impact
of Linux\'s adoption?
Remember, there are hundreds of incompatible versions of Linux. The fact that we
call it Linux hides the fact that this driver works on this version, and this
app works on that version. But there is a world where you don\'t test for binary
compatibility because you don\'t have testers. It\'s just a different world than
ours. That approach has certain benefits and advantages in terms of the way
things get put together and ours has certain benefits and advantages. It\'s the
primary operating system we\'ll be competing against.

Five years ago it would have been Windows versus OS/2. A few years before, it
would have been Windows versus Macintosh. Before, maybe it would have been C/PM
86, and before that, maybe CP/M 80. There\'s always been some challenger to the
operating system. Linux--which is only a kernel--is not where the interesting
stuff is going on nowadays.

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