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How the Open-Source World Plans to Smack Down Microsoft, and Oracle, and... | |
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| Time: 07:13 EST/12:13 GMT | News Source: Fortune.com | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Steve Ballmer made a sudden and unscheduled trip to Munich last winter. The CEO of Microsoft had been vacationing with his family in Europe when he got word that the Bavarian capital was about to scrap the Windows operating system on its 14,000 PCs and switch to free "open source" Linux software to run its machines. Loath to lose a prominent government customer, Ballmer jumped into a business suit and rushed to Munich. But he was too late. The city decided to go open source. |
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| #1 By 6859 (206.156.242.36) at Monday, February 09, 2004 08:51:04 AM |
| Haven't the Open Source people been saying this sort of thing for years? I'm still waiting for them to get their act together...mean time, Oracle, MS, and the rest are pulling further ahead. |
| #2 By 9589 (66.57.157.35) at Monday, February 09, 2004 09:01:02 AM |
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Yet again, another reference to Munich and, yes, hold on to your operating systems, 14,000 computers going over to Linux!@#!@#? Of course, we have learned lately that said conversion is, how shall we put it, not progressing in what one would call a fast clip.
How many times can this insignificant BS be replicated across all media? And to think, this was a Fortune "Special Report"! lol Meantime, IDC reports year after year percentage increases in total share of Windows in the server market and Windows continues to garner 95% of the desktop market. And, that's my, "Special Report!" |
| #3 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at Monday, February 09, 2004 11:46:19 PM |
| jdhawk, don't forget that Munich is the back yard of the linux os maker. It was just a move to support the home team. Its no more news than a suberb of Redmond choosing Microsoft office over staroffice. |
