Will Open Source World Welcome Microsoft-Yahoo Combo?

[ Thanks to The VAR Guy for this link. ]

"Microsoft has confirmed that it's seeking to acquire Yahoo! Some folks--you know, the open source crowd--will likely bash a proposed Microsoft-Yahoo combo. The VAR Guy, however, is willing to give Microsoft a chance to explain the proposed business combo. Here's why.

"First, a little background. Search engine giants like Google and Yahoo rely heavily on Linux, the LAMP stack and custom open source projects. And Microsoft has been trying to re-invent the LAMP stack with WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, and related tools), notes Mary Jo Foley’s Microsoft Watch blog..."

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