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| As such, it is looking to sign up a range of new partners, both within
| and outside the United States, who are already successful in the new
| markets it is trying to conquer--even if that success was achieved
| on competitor platforms, such as Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| "I remember 10 to 15 years ago when people were saying 'Linux over my
| dead body,' and now I see people handling their mission-critical
| businesses off that.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060711/tc_zd/183050
>From what I see in our Division, Microsoft is giving their product for free
and then reversing the infrastructures of Linux HPC setups. Such moves
(bounties) are nothing new, e.g.:
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| It's part of a continuing behavior pattern by
| Microsoft that I think it's fair to call "dirty fighting." GoDaddy was
| using Apache (I assume on Linux) because it was a great technical
| solution. They didn't switch to IIS on Windows Server 2003 for any
| technical reason. The switch was accompanied by a press release by
| GoDaddy, containing Microsoft promotional language. Now, I've changed
| many servers from one thing to another, but I've never made a press
| release about it. GoDaddy wouldn't be doing that unless Microsoft had
| offered them something valuable in return. There has been talk in the
| domain business that Microsoft has been offering the large domain
| registries a wad of cash to switch their parked sites. There is no
| other reason to do this than to influence the Netcraft figures.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=15108
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