Ellison: Linux will wipe Microsoft out of the data center
Source: Computer World
At a gathering yesterday of current and potential Oracle Corp. independent software vendor partners, Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison extolled the virtues of Linux and predicted that the open-source operating system will soon decimate Microsoft Corp. in the battle for the data center market.
"[Microsoft has] already been killed by one open-source product. Slaughtered, wiped out, taken from market dominance to irrelevance," Ellison said, speaking of the Apache Web server's displacement of Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) technology. "They had a virtual monopoly on Web servers, and then they were wiped off the face of the earth. And it's going to happen to them again on Linux."
