[luau] News - CNET - A Mortal Microsoft (part 1 of 4)

[Warren Togami]

Check out the diagrams and pie graphs on the bottom half of this article.

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-14-011-26-NW-BZ-MS
(from LinuxToday)

[Editor's Note: This article is the first part of a four-part series CNET
News has launched this week entitled "A Mortal Microsoft". While this will
be the only article LT will link to in the series, we wanted readers to be
aware of the series and of the existence of a free PDF document where
readers can read the entire four-day series immediately (though free
registration is required). -ed.]


http://news.com.com/2009-1001-961354.html
Open source: Rebels at the gate
By Mike Ricciuti
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
October 14, 2002, 4:00 a.m. PT
"For years, Bill Gates and other top executives at Microsoft railed against
the economic philosophy of open-source software with Orwellian fervor,
denouncing its communal licensing as a 'cancer' that stifled technological
innovation.
...

The open-source movement also represents a larger threat to Microsoft that
transcends any particular technology or company: The high-tech industry has
undergone a psychological shift that encourages challenges to Microsoft,
which for many years had been technologically possible but practically
unthinkable.
...

In a recent survey of 225 chief information officers, 29 percent said they
owned Linux servers and 8 percent are formally considering buying them. More
troubling for Microsoft, 31 percent of those who recently purchased a new
Linux server used it to replace a server running Windows.
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