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Economic tremors and MS

Christian_<>< 7th Jan 2009

With Economic tremors abounding us right now, I do not see how a Company could withstand the money lost from an exploit like this plus all of the time spent by staff and lost productivity due to insecure software. I do not see how MS based solutions can help a companies bottom line, due the massive overhead in licensing, anti-virus, firewall, spyware/malware/trojan fiasco's how could any company go forward thinking ROI will be great with this solution.

In my opinion in the year 2009 MS still has the same problems as they did 10 years ago. What has changed, prices maybe however the viruses/malware/trojans continue on a relentless rampage taking the MS Ship down to the bottom.

The amount of money that it takes to keep the MS ship afloat is not a given, with tight economic times open source solutions will be on the radar to get out of renewing licensing that is not needed. With a support Enterprise grade of Linux solution the ROI is far greater with less security vulnerabilities and downtime associated with the platform.

I think they will hit a peak at MS, and once this is achieved the amount of money that is required to keep it at the top will erode like a small drip, that will eventually turn in a small stream in due time. I for see a downsizing of MS in the future the amount of money it requires to keep their insecure/expensive environment is clearly not worth it.