Linux: Looking Past the Rhetoric

Posted by dave on Nov 4, 2004 8:13 AM EDT
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You can tell that Microsoft is scared about something when the company can't stop talking about it. On the client side, the software giant is so nervous about the amazing advances made by Apple Computer with its iPod portable audio player and iTunes Music Store that the company recently spent hundreds of millions of dollars rejuvenating Windows XP with a variety of digital media updates that likely will prove more confusing than exciting to many consumers. On the enterprise side, long-time nemeses such as IBM and Novell have rallied around the open-source Linux standard in their latest bid to outflank Microsoft's server products. Predictably, Microsoft has come out firing.

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Too willing to buy the cost advantages of Windows TxtEdMacs 0 1,662 Nov 4, 2004 9:13 AM

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