In this article I will explain how a shift in the OS marketshare from Windows to Mac OSX or Linux will influence the entire IT world.
First of all, let’s consider that Visual Studio and Delphi are the most popular development platforms. Many people won’t be able to develop for the new platform. They will have to learn C++ or Java and many developers won’t be able to make this change from C# and Pascal.
A second point is the inefficiency of the cross platform development. Platforms like Java are often very slow and have unhandy IDE’s. Netbeans automatically resizes things that don’t have to be resized and eclipse doesn’t even have libraries for D&D RAD.
Due to these points, development will fall into the hands of big corporations and development associations. Small programmers and hobbyist that delivered us many useful freeware applications in the past will disappear and face bankruptcy. This will destroy many peoples lives.
A third point is the gigantic cost for the switch. When switching to linux or Mac OSX you will have to reeducate your employees to work with the new operating system and when switching to Mac OSX you will even have to consider the costs for the new hard-/software.
A fourth point, all popular windows applications have to be rewritten and compiled for the new platform.
A fifth point, Everyone on this planet will have to learn to work with the new OS. At this point they can hardly operate windows, so a switch should be deadly for the de-digibetizing.
Conclusion : A switch of marketshare would mean a bankruptcy for thousands of hard working software developers and would cost the big corporations billions of dollars to conform to modern standards. It would also render most applications useless and would disable the normal man to work with a PC.
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“Small programmers and hobbyist that delivered us many useful freeware applications in the past will disappear and face bankruptcy. This will destroy many peoples lives.”
yes, like linux and all the software that run on it? lol.
“A switch of marketshare would mean a bankruptcy for thousands of hard working software developers and would cost the big corporations billions of dollars to conform to modern standards”
This is FUD. In any case, if a software house or developer has tied up itself to one OS it’s its problem. Many other will gain more with more platform on the market. Surely MS will loose money, but I guess it should be not so bad.
@ Mattia : Do you think that Linux and the opensource community is the only source of freeware applications, if we take the global application share we can see that most freeware applications from small developers are built for windows.
To the second statement, ever tried to switch from delphi to Lazarus or from Visual studio to GCC? It’s like switching from Ferrari to Lada.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Linux too, I have an ubuntu and a Debian machine but I’m tired of people always saying that MS is evil. They are not evil, they give jobs to more people than Linux will ever do and their only obligation is to make money and contribute to the global economy, but that’s probably something a linux enthusiast doesn’t understand.
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