[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Microsoft’s chief Linux strategist, Martin Taylor, advised the
company’s partners not to be seduced by the higher-margin service
opportunities offered by commercial Linux platforms because they
won’t last.“Faced with the impending launch by Red Hat and SuSE of major
upgrades to their distributions in October–and their increasingly
avid efforts to entice channel partners–Taylor came out swinging
during a meeting with CRN and sister publication VARBusiness at
Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash.“‘It’ll give you a short-term high, and part of the allure of
the Linux world to partners is that short-term high, but we have
better long-term economics,’ said Taylor, Microsoft’s general
manager of platform strategy. ‘Solution providers think they can
cobble the thing together, but the economics of Windows will play
out over time…'”