‘For software developers it would have been unthinkable a few
years ago to open a shop without a Microsoft Corp. programmer
manual nearby.”
“But when Alex Edelstein recently launched Viralon
(http://www.viralon.com), which makes software to help businesses
manage customer acquisitions over the Internet, there wasn’t a
Microsoft program in sight.”
“Instead, the company started out by writing software that’s
based on open Internet standards, including Linux operating system
software.”
“…I don’t think people realize what an enormous change it’s
been from a few years ago,” said Edelstein, chief executive of
Viralon. “There was a point when almost everything was being done
on Windows, and developers thought it would be all Windows very
soon.”