RedmondMag: The Attacker's Advantage | Linux Today

RedmondMag: The Attacker’s Advantage

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 28, 2006

Redmond: More than any other company, you’re going
after Microsoft on the desktop. In doing so you’re fighting a war
on two fronts–Microsoft and your competitors in the open source
world, most notably Red Hat. Are you equipped to do
that?

Hovsepian: This is all about the discussion
with the customer and what they want to do inside their shop. It’s
also a discussion around value and innovation. We have positioned
ourselves as the enterprise Linux play ranging from the desktop to
data center using the exact same code base. This is a really
important differentiation for our users…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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