“During Wednesday’s main attraction here at Gartner Symposium in
Orlando, FL–a keynote Q&A session with Microsoft’s Steve
Ballmer–the CEO of the Redmond, WA-based company gave some details
on how Microsoft plans to win the hearts and minds of buyers who
are thinking about going with Linux instead of Windows…”“Server-based usage of Linux has been a thorn in Microsoft’s
side as millions of the company’s potential customers–either those
looking for big iron and Unix alternatives or those starting from
scratch–have gone the Linux route with their application servers,
database servers, Web servers and appliances (where the operating
system is embedded)…”
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