crumas2 on 16 December 2008
This is tricky. A monopoly exists when one company has sufficient share to "control" a market. Microsoft has a monopoly on business desktops in the US because the vast majority of companies pay whatever is the going rate dictated by ms... They are not in a position to bargain with ms or switch to another platform without a significant impact to their business. Ms does not have a monopoly on the home computer market because apple offers a sufficient alternative for a good percentage of users.
The same goes for servers... Viable alternatives exist, so no monopoly.
