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Martin Taylor has worn many hats in his 11-year Microsoft career, from building channel programs in Latin America and the Washington, D.C., beltway to serving as Steve Ballmer's chief of staff. He has been a go-to guy at the Redmond, Wash., software giant, so it makes sense that he's tasked today, as general manager of platform strategy, to run the counteroffensive against Linux, the open-source phenomenon that poses perhaps the single biggest threat to the company since the U.S. Department of Justice . Taylor says he is taking a "facts-only" approach to beating back the Linux onslaught, devoting an entire Web site (dubbed http://www.getthefacts.com) to studies and surveys comparing Windows favorably to Linux. Can he stem the tide of developers who are flocking toward open source? Given Microsoft's might and resources behind its development community, he probably has some sway and influence here. He talked recently with VARBusiness senior writer Carolyn A. April about the Windows/Linux competition.
>>Taylor: If you grow from one to two, you've grown 50 percent. It's just math.
Like a lot of other stuff even math is done differently at MS. On the other
hand, plus or minus 50 percent doesnt matter if you make a fortune by
strangle holding the marketplace. I really hope the sad story around this
company will quickly come to an end and consumers will turn their back on
them in large numbers (well, you can always dream, cant you?) The latest
news about McNealy-Shmealy and the DancingMonkey(TM) becoming
real buddies now leaves a bad after taste at least with me...
everbody have a nice weekend.
If you grow from one to two, haven't you grown 100 percent?
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