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InfoWorld: Microsoft yet again grabs top honors in the 1998 Down to the Wire awards

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 6, 1999

Thanks to Eigil
Bjørgum
for this link.

“Microsoft won the most awards again this year. But the
competition was fierce.” — Nicholas Petreley

“The award for the Most Effective Promotion of Linux goes to
Microsoft, too. Microsoft easily qualified for the award when it
produced the “Halloween documents” (so named because these internal
documents were leaked on Halloween). This in-depth examination of
the emerging threat of open-source software contains some of the
most eloquently worded arguments for using Linux instead of Windows
NT at the server.”


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Web Webster

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