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Posted in FUD, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 12:19 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: In the enterprise market GNU/Linux seems to be Microsoft’s most dominant threat, not Apple
ONCE in a while Microsoft helps show why it is so preoccupied with GNU/Linux — to the point where it names GNU/Linux vendors like Canonical and Red Hat in its SEC filings and creates smear pages about both RHEL (server) and Ubuntu (desktop).
Microsoft’s GNU/Linux-hostile COO has just named enterprise competitors and they all have something in common:
> Microsoft has five main competitors when it comes to the enterprise market, COO Kevin Turner said today at the annual Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond. They are: * Google — (Google Apps, Google App Engine) * VMware — (virtualization) * Linux/open source — (client and server operating systems) * IBM — (database, Lotus Notes) * Oracle — (database)
All the above companies use GNU/Linux and sometimes rely on its thoroughly. As an aside, Microsoft is comparing company names along with a phenomenon or a Free software project, which is hard but that’s just what Microsoft is doing right there. It’s like naming Libya, terrorism, and Afghanistan as 3 threats (one is not an actual physical location/entity). █
“I’d put the Linux phenomenon really as threat No. 1.”
–Steve Ballmer, 2001
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