Is Microsoft Irrelevant?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 24, 2008 2:35 PM EDT
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Is Microsoft irrelevant? That's what Brian Aker, director of architecture at Sun Microsystems' MySQL, called the software giant in an onstage Q&A during the opening day of keynotes and sessions at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention here July 23. Aker's response came to a question from O'Reilly Media CEO Tim O'Reilly, who asked Aker and Michael "Monty" Widenius, founder of MySQL AB and author of the MySQL server, a series of questions, including their views on several leading companies in the computer industry. When it came to Microsoft, Aker replied that "Microsoft is irrelevant."

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