Five Ways Intel Will Weaken Microsoft
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| 1. More Windows Server competition: Already, we’ve seen the Intel-Red Hat
| alliance make Red Hat Linux a wildly popular operating system for Intel
| server grids. Red Hat’s momentum, The VAR Guy believes, prompted Microsoft to
| align with Novell.
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| 2. More server application competition: Centric CRM will, undoubtedly,
| increasingly compete with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Oracle/Siebel,
| Salesforce.com and other CRM software providers.
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| 3. More desktop competition: Intel is one of the loudest promoters of Ubuntu
| Linux — the fast-growing open source desktop operating system. In fact, Intel
| and Dell among the top sponsors of the upcoming UbuntuLIVE conference in
| July.
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| 4. More mobile device competition: Intel also is working with Ubuntu on a
| mobile/embedded version of Linux for Internet devices and smart phones.
| Preliminary code should ship this fall, with Intel-based mobile devices
| running Ubuntu arriving in early 2008.
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| 5. Less Intimidation By Microsoft: In the 1990s, Microsoft’s overwhelming
| power intimidated PC suppliers and hardware companies. These days, decisions
| by Dell and Intel to aggressively support open source gives smaller hardware
| companies the confidence they need to break away from Microsoft whenever
| appropriate.
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