Competing with the Microsoft ecosystem | John Carroll | ZDNet.com

� Competing with the Microsoft ecosystem | John Carroll | ZDNet.com: "First, it's worth mentioning that I consider open source, and all the products that currently fall into that category, as the only group of products capable of competing with Microsoft's ecosystem. Apple is too limited in its potential product range. The traditional Unix operating systems are oriented around servers. Only open source, however fractious, has enough spread to compete with a proprietary environment that touches upon most areas of computing.

That being said, what follows are the four areas of improvement that would better position open source as a true alternative to the Microsoft ecosystem."