[ Thanks to The VAR
Guy for this link. ]
“Microsoft has confirmed that it’s seeking to acquire Yahoo!
Some folks–you know, the open source crowd–will likely bash a
proposed Microsoft-Yahoo combo. The VAR Guy, however, is willing to
give Microsoft a chance to explain the proposed business combo.
Here’s why.“First, a little background. Search engine giants like Google
and Yahoo rely heavily on Linux, the LAMP stack and custom open
source projects. And Microsoft has been trying to re-invent the
LAMP stack with WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, and related tools),
notes Mary Jo Foley’s Microsoft Watch
blog…”