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p2pnet.net News:- Clayton Christensen, author of “Innovator’s Dilemma,” has an idea on one of the ways Microsoft might deflect threats offered by Linux desktops on handheld computers.
Buy Research In Motion.
As new Linux applications on Web servers and handheld devices get better, he says, “applications will get sucked off the desktop onto the Internet, and that’s what will undo Microsoft.”
Quoted in a ZDNet UK story, Christensen was talking at the Future Forward technology conference when he said if Microsoft doesn’t react to the rise of Linux desktops on handheld computers, it’ll miss “a coming wave of new applications and market opportunities”.
“As computing becomes Internet-centric, rather than LAN (local-area network)-centric, their stuff runs on Linux, because it’s all new,” he went on, noting that when people travel, they increasingly rely on handheld devices, such as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry.
“Christensen said that Microsoft should move progressively into Linux applications over the next six or seven years, because that sector will offer better opportunities for growth than operating systems or databases,” says ZDNet, adding that he suggested that, “Microsoft acquire Research In Motion to accelerate the move, rather than continue to invest in making Windows run better on handheld devices.
” ‘As the BlackBerry becomes more capable, applications will get sucked onto it. Those are kind of places where growth is. If Microsoft catches it, they’ll be all right’.”
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See:-
deflect threats - Microsoft advised to learn to love Linux, ZDNet UK, October 18, 2004
