“Milestone: How does Microsoft deal
successfully with the open source threat?“Silverberg: I don’t think they have figured
that out yet, I think that is clear. They are struggling with not
so much open source, per se, but rather they are no longer the low
price solution. In the past Microsoft was the low cost solution and
Microsoft was then competing and attacking expensive proprietary
systems from below. Now for the first time the tables are turned
and it’s Microsoft that’s being attacked from below by a lower
price solution…”