Downturn of Computer Industry: Battle of Unix Vs. Windows

Downturn of Computer Industry:

Computer Industry was the topmost industry till 1998. But after the political change in USA there was downturn in IT industry. Republicans came into power in USA and Mr. George Bush became the American President. There was a slowdown in the computer industry. As a result, Software Engineers were begging in the streets with their bio-data. Even I am a software engineer and I also failed to get a suitable job. I survived by changing my career to teaching IT and Admin work.

There are simply no jobs in India if you see the premier newspaper “Times of India”. There are hardly any software jobs. There is a boom of mechanical, Instrumentation, civil and piping industry jobs.

Actually there has been saturation in the computer industry as there are no new projects available to IT companies. So they are just exchanging their own products among themselves to maintain economic vibrancy. I can say, dot net, SAP, Databases are still hot in the industry. Unix Field is almost dying as Sun Microsystems; one of the best UNIX vendors has been taken over by Oracle Inc. I am also a UNIX expert but I had to switch over to Windows.  Now HP and a few UNIX vendors are the last remaining survivors. Hardware Industry is also having the similar fate.

I don’t want to discourage the computer users as the software market can still come back in near future. Now I want to discuss something that may sound peculiar. Please read carefully. Future of IT industry depends on Gods & Astro-Stars as Software and hardware are remotely controllable by Gods & Stars (as per astrology there are Star Wars.). The mouse movement, rebooting of PCs, speed and other nitty-gritty modifications in the software & hardware, internet can be remotely controlled by God & Stars. One of my colleagues by the name Mr. Keyur Shah, an IT specialist, had confirmed it.

In this pretext I like to stress on the prospects of the dying Unix industry and upcoming

Battle of Unix vs. Windows

Unix and Windows are basically competitors. Apple Macintosh was also used earlier but Microsoft killed many such companies.

Unix was very versatile earlier but now it is in a slowdown state. As we see that major Unix vendors have recently closed down. For example, Sun Microsystems Inc., one of the Unix Giants was taken over by Oracle Inc. Other Unix Vendors e.g. HP Unix, SCO Unix, SGI Unix are currently the last remaining lone survivors. A decade ago, Unix market was very promising. But after the Windows came into the market, Unix faced tough competition. The major market for Unix comprises of mid-range and enterprise server range computers. In the personal computing area Windows is the best. Nobody uses Unix in the personal computing area though Linux is used. Linux is also a type of Unix and it competes with Windows. But it is a free software. Now Windows has also captured the server market from Unix. Most of the big companies are now choosing Windows rather than Unix. So the market for Unix is depleted. Microsoft business strategy is such that it makes the users addicted to Windows. Once they buy the product, there are many other products which are required by them. So the users get addicted to it. Whereas Unix is powerful but it is cryptic. Ordinary users cannot understand it.

Even Microsoft has a lawsuit against Unix vendor Sun Microsystems over java issues. It was a long blistering battle between them. Finally after the decline of Sun, Microsoft has captured its market.