[ Thanks to George
Mitchell for this link. ]
“A proposal by the U.S. government to split software behemoth
Microsoft Corp. into two companies could ultimately encourage more
innovation in Silicon Valley and will likely be a boon to the
upstart Linux operating system, industry executives said
Friday….”
“Many companies developing products around the renegade Linux
operating system said a possible breakup of the software giant
would be a boon to Linux, which has already been making inroads
against Microsoft’s Windows NT software in network servers running
Web sites and email servers….”
“I think that separating the company into an applications piece
and an operating systems piece though, could significantly
accelerate that, particularly since the applications piece of the
company would have a strong economic incentive to port Office to
Linux,” Augustin said. “If Microsoft Office ran on Linux
immediately we would see Linux with a 10-15 percent share of the
desktop operating system market,” he added.”
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