http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060105-170335
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| "Asked if Google represents the most formidable threat of the
| company's 30-year history, Gates replied with a curt "No...The biggest
| company in the computer industry, by far, is IBM. They have the four
| times the employees that I have, way more revenues than I have.
| IBM has always been our biggest competitor. The press just doesn't
| like to write about IBM," Gates said.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/5/12/3946
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| Finally, another shoot-from-the-hip statement rounds out the substance of
| his remarks:
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| When asked... to choose between IBM or open source as the threat he
| most worries about, Ballmer quipped that IBM is then no longer in the game.
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