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Predictions for the Year 2007, Part I
Stock Picks
18. Stock picks: Steris (40%), Johnson & Johnson (40%), Novell (20%)
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Sonia's reference to Judge Jackson is interesting. Jackson (when he was awake) didn't think MSFT had viable competitors. In fact, Novell probably isn't a viable competitor to MSFT; but the general FOSS OS market is. To say that MSFT needs to partner with a competitor rather than a "lapdog" as Luis states it, would have MSFT partnering with the entire FOSS industrial segment or not work with FOSS at all. Obviously, MSFT is more practical, and sought to work with Novell.
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Well, Noel you have passed anbother milestone!
I think of this deal much in the same way I think of Microsoft's competing for influence in donating to both Republicans and Democrats: they want a voice in that community.
They are somewhat surprised (As I was) at the volume and consistency of the criticism of Microsoft. I did not expect the FOSS community to hold together as well as it has.
Looking more closely at the deal, and the recent annoucement by Sun to release Java under the GPL, I can see that the competetion to have a voice in the developer community is warming up.
Remeber what Schumpeter said about the complexity of competition, and not to be too focused on cost competition alone.
I think the for-profit enterprise is competeing for the respect of a community.
Yes, it's a good thing.