Australian IT: Viva la Open Source | Linux Today

Australian IT: Viva la Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 4, 2003

“Guerilla warfare is sweeping across the IT industry as
organised bands of revolutionaries seek to challenge the
established order.

“Gone are the great set-piece battles of the past. The Microsoft
empire has seen off all threats to its hegemony, and challengers
such as IBM, Lotus, Apple and WordPerfect have been beaten into
submission.

“Once-great gladiators such as Unix, NetWare, Macintosh and Java
have downed swords in the war against Windows.

“Today, the software industry has only one superpower:
Microsoft.

“Now this New World Order faces a different type of
challenge…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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