Comment This is bad... (Score 1) 115
I think Realnetwork just signed its doom.
In a year MS media format will be the facto standard on 90% of servers.
MS says "Our mediaserver is free use it..." and many admins will do just that.
MS will sell more server and to use the w2k server fully you will need to have w2k clients.
And the next big market will be streaming media as Television will move to the net.
What are the alternatives? Realmedia costs money and most companies will change there NT4 server(they have to...) to w2k servers and the MS mediaserver is included so why use realmedia.
And i don't think we will see any open source streamer in the near future, even if some gurus code an open source alternative it will need to have support from companies (remember coda and nfs) and MS will never agree on that and we all know why...
I hope in the next couple of years companies start to replace there MS win clients with Linux, but that will take time.
The next couple of years will be interesting.
In a year MS media format will be the facto standard on 90% of servers.
MS says "Our mediaserver is free use it..." and many admins will do just that.
MS will sell more server and to use the w2k server fully you will need to have w2k clients.
And the next big market will be streaming media as Television will move to the net.
What are the alternatives? Realmedia costs money and most companies will change there NT4 server(they have to...) to w2k servers and the MS mediaserver is included so why use realmedia.
And i don't think we will see any open source streamer in the near future, even if some gurus code an open source alternative it will need to have support from companies (remember coda and nfs) and MS will never agree on that and we all know why...
I hope in the next couple of years companies start to replace there MS win clients with Linux, but that will take time.
The next couple of years will be interesting.
