“Microsoft may find a monopoly on developers will help it
maintain its grip on the software market in the face of Linux
alternatives.“Redmond is currently touting the roll-out by the Royal
Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) of Microsoft’s server and
back-end technology in its e-commerce driven online portal as a win
over Linux, the platform on which the site originally ran…”
[ Thanks to Jono Bacon
for this link. ]
“The phone call I received from Edelman invited me down to their
offices in Piccadilly Circus, London to discuss a deal that
Microsoft has struck with a then-unspecified organisation who have
moved from Linux to a Microsoft based solution. Although Edelman
could not share who this organisation was, they could tell
me that they had 110,000 members. I booked the meeting and
proceeded to try and decide who this entity could be. As a
member-based organisation, they could reasonably span across a
variety of industries. With my experience, reasoning and
consideration on form, I came up with the conclusion that it must
be The AA or Readers Digest. OK… OK, I was a little thin on
ideas…”
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