Ballmer: We’re cheaper than Apple! (but not Linux)

“He wouldn’t be alone. IDC is seeing a massive uptake in Linux
adoption because (surprise, Mr Ballmer!) it’s a highly
cost-effective solution in bad economic times. U.S. retailer The
Gap, for example, just dumped Microsoft Windows for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux because of its positive return-on-investment and
superior flexibility.

“Microsoft may have been able to get Novell to “put a price on
Linux” through intellectual property scare tactics, but it hasn’t
worked for the market leaders, Red Hat and Canonical (Ubuntu). Nor
has it worked for the leading hardware and software vendors that
depend on Linux, e.g., IBM, Oracle, SAP, etc.”

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