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April 1, 2006
Barron's: Microsoft's Return to Go-Go Days
No, it's not a joke. Financial publication Barron's cover story this week is that Microsoft is set to grow again. Matter of fact, says Barron's, Microsoft stock is "among the technology sector's most alluring bets".The argument is a combination of things, but mostly having to do with the company launching more products in 12 months than at any other time in its long history.
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Microsoft has one minor problem. The Open Source Movement. It's sucking the life blood out of them as surely as they did to Netscape.
Barrons: "During much of that period, Microsoft has been developing one of the most complicated things ever created by man: Windows Vista, which has an almost unfathomable 50 million lines of code."
Amateurs.
"This work is a preliminary study
of the new Debian GNU/Linux release (3.1, codenamed Sarge) which was officially announced recently. In it we show the
size of Debian in terms of lines of code (close to 230 million source lines of code), the use of the various programming
languages in which the software has been written, and the size of the packages included within the distribution. We also
apply a ‘classical’ and well-known cost estimation method which gives an idea of how much it would cost to create
something on the scale of Debian from scratch (over 8 billion USD)."
--http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2005/3/up6-3Amor.pdf