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InfoWorld: Microsoft’s Competitive Positioning Against Open Source

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Matt Asay
Jan 4, 2007

“I came across this entry on the Lobby4Linux blog. I don’t know
who writes [this] blog, or even if she/he is credible, but I found
some of the comments interesting. Interesting and a bit worrisome.
Worrisome because they paint Microsoft as it should be acting, and
not as the backslapping Boy Scout that it has recently painted
itself as.

“When I talk with my Novell friends, I’m surprised by how naive
they are about their recent pact with Microsoft. I talked with one
relative newbie who was chattering about ‘big deals’ being done
with the help from Kevin Turner (COO) and other senior Microsoft
executives. They apparently think that the loser in all this is Red
Hat…”


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