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Consulting Times: Sun Versus Linux: The Real Story

[ Thanks to Tom
Adelstein
for this link. ]

“On December 01, 1999, 32bitsonline.com published an article in
which I chronicled the emergence of Windows NT from a small five
percent share of the server market to approximately 50 percent.
During the period, Novell fell from around an 80 percent share of
the PC nodes to around ten percent. With Novell flattened,
Microsoft started to go after UNIX until interrupted by Federal
Anti-Trust actions over the Netscape Browser.

“The article called ‘Did Microsoft Try to Kill UNIX?’ no longer
exists and neither do the many links that documented Microsoft’s
famous ascent in the server space. Evidence of the article’s
existence still remains at this link…”

Complete
Story

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