[ Thanks to George
Mitchell for this link. ]
“Much of the high-tech industry has been gradually
distancing itself from Microsoft Corp. since the software giant’s
legal troubles began, and that tendency is likely to accelerate
regardless of whether a breakup is upheld on appeal….“
“`It appears as if we’ve maybe reached another stage in this
matter, but not necessarily the end-point,” said Dell Computer
spokesman T.R. Reid. “We’ll take care of the business of today and
leave the speculation to others.”
“Just this week, a San Francisco company called Collab.Net,
which brings technology workers together with so-called developers
of “open-source” software such as Linux, announced it has received
$35 million in funding from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Oracle
and Sun Microsystems, among others.”