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April 02, 2003 (IDG News Service) -- 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."
Ellison's version of Web server history is a bit shaky, though, according to research and services company Netcraft Inc. The company's survey of Web server market share shows Apache already heading toward a leading market position by the time IIS appeared on the field in 1996. Although IIS is currently the No. 2 Web server technology, behind Apache, it never gained more than a 35% market share, according to Netcraft, which tracks IIS's current market share at about 30%.
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Ellison's characteristically dramatic predictions came during a showcase event following Oracle's announcement last week of new efforts to spur adoption of Linux by independent software vendors (see story). Yesterday's gathering featured several customers discussing their experiences with projects involving Oracle technology deployed on Linux and a panel discussion among Oracle independent software vendor partners working on Linux support.
Ellison concluded the session with a few brief remarks about the speed, cost and flexibility advantages Linux offers over proprietary systems and then invited questions. A query about his view on Linux's future, especially on the desktop, prompted his dire predictions about what the open-source movement will do to key rival Microsoft.
While Windows gets all the attention, the Office suite is Microsoft's real monopoly, and once a viable Office alternative is available for Linux, "all hell will break loose," he said.
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