Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Excuse me, 7% and growing. They are the Leica of Personal Computers. Niche market, high end users, but will never really be able to compete with MS. Wake up! You guys sounded the death of MS with UNIX, then the death of MS with Lotus 123, then the death of MS with Word Perfect, etc. Gues what? It ain't gonna happen. I remember when academes laughed at the IBM PC in 1982, but I guess they didn't have the last laugh did they? Realize that the PC market is only a piece of the puzzle. Its the network that is most important, and their is no heir apparent to UNIX except NT, even if it take a few more releases to get there. Forget Linux, its the Yugo of operating systems at both its price and performance. Peter J - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@ponyexpress.net] Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 12:57 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Win 95 to 98 my final word > 97% of new PC buyers. The remaining 3% buy MACs. >Must be an academic sort of thing. Not any more. Apple's getting a bigger chunk. And for any single PC manufacturer, they're selling more any anybody. But then, they have an exclusive. As for drag and drop, it's because of Microsoft's monopoly that they don't have to fix the garbage in Windows they would otherwise have to. We can only hope Apple gives them more trouble. :-) Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Is reading in the bathroom considered Multi-Tasking?