Computer and Society Olayele Adelakun (Ph.D) Assistant Professor CTI Office: Room 735 CTI 7th Floor Phone: Fax: Web:

Free to Choose Rivalry in the IT business: Hardware  IBM vs. PC clone makers  IBM vs. Apple Rivalry in the IT business: Software  IBM vs. Microsoft  IBM vs. Apple  Microsoft vs. Apple

Free to Choose New Rivalry in the IT business: Hardware  IBM vs. PC clone makers  IBM vs. Apple New Rivalry in the IT business: Software  IBM vs. Microsoft  Microsoft vs. Apple  SAP vs. Oracle / People soft  Microsoft vs. Sun Microsystems Inc. / HP/ IBM  Microsoft vs. Linux

Free to Choose Linux vs. Microsoft :Server OS  Linux started as free software on the internet is now used in corporate America  Linux is backed by Sun, HP and IBM in addition to Unix OS  Linux is considered more secure, cheaper, more reliable, and even more innovative than Microsoft Windows server OS

Free to Choose Linux vs. Microsoft :Server OS  Linux is backed by a community of hobbies, programmers, researchers and corporate users  The believe is the Linux like any other OS should be a commodity. Something that should be offered free of charge  Microsoft argues against such dangerous religion practices / beliefs  As long as Bill is around is all about more money. For who?

Free to Choose Linux vs. Unix vs. Microsoft :Server OS  Unix rules the server world until the arrival of Linux and Microsoft  It is easier to do move Unix application to Linux than to Microsoft server

Free to Choose Open source vs. Closed Source  Microsoft vs. Linux  Apple vs. PC 

Free to Choose Open source Start Ups  Red Hat: Companies that have adopted Linux open source  IBM  Dell  Merrill Lynch  L.L. Bean  Google “Linux offered the best price performance” David Krane – Google spokesman Google run over 10,000 Linux based servers

Free to Choose The Debate:  Is software better when developed by a democratic community pulling for the common good  Or  When left in the hands of profit-making compnaies

Free to Choose Strategy:  Microsoft moves in to the Government arena  New functionalities in 2003 Like improved security like Linux and Unix Microsoft open some of the code to government and important Microsoft customers Microsoft also clamed that over 5 years Microsoft server OS offered lower cost for four out five customers Linux Market share15.9% from 13.3% in 2002 Unix Market share13.9% from 14.6% Microsoft Market share60.46% from 60.42%

Free to Choose Are free to choose  Can corporation fight Microsoft army of sales force  Microsoft War history: Web browser with ? Word processing with ? Server OS with ? PC OS with ?

Free to Choose Write a two pages paper on IT wars in the IT industry. Please include references.  Who are the losers and winners  What was the way about  What was the duration of the war  Can you predict the next battle?