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Re: [News] [Linux] Microsoft Bets Advertising Business on Linux and Free Software

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Top secret: Microsoft's $6 billion open source play
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | This month's announcement by Microsoft to acquire digital marketing
> | services firm aQuantive has revealed little on how the companies 
> | will integrate their IT, but inside information indicates the deal 
> | may be Redmond's largest commitment to free software.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Whether the businesses are complementary or not, Microsoft's integration 
> | work will no doubt involve a lot of open source software used by aQuantive.
> |
> | Information available from Atlas' Web site indicates the Internet software 
> | company employs extensive use of open source software including Linux,
> | Apache, MySQL, and Solaris.
> |
> | Software engineers at Atlas' Raleigh office do client/server development in 
> | C and C++, software maintenance and "scripting", and developing and
> | maintaining custom reporting capabilities. 
> `----
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1616039231;fp;2;fpid;1
> 
> Let's not forget Hotmail. It ran BSD for many years.
> 
> 
> Related:
> 
> It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux
> 
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> | What the press statement didn't mention is that Aruba mobility
> | controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has
> | aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows as part of
> | its "Get the Facts" marketing campaign.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Pandey's appraisal of Aruba's technology is in stark contrast to 
> | Microsoft's "Get the Facts" rhetoric which places Windows as a more secure, 
> | and higher-performing choice over Linux.
> `----
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;754084996;fp;2;fpid;1

Hotmail.com currently runs something between 14,000 and 15,000 FreeBSD
servers to serve it's huge market.  You do realize, Hotmail is like #3
in the market for free web mail addresses?

Then, there are all the Aruba routers running GNU/Linux and replacing
all the aged Cisco routers.

Plus, the Microsoft.com and MSN.com both run behind 15,000 Akamai leased
  servers running GNU/Linux (since Fall 2005).  These protect against
DDOS attacks.

The Microsoft 'Labs' run over 200 Linux systems, to test compatibility
(quoting Stephen Hilf, Microsoft's Linux VP.)

Of course Microsoft also pays royalties to the 5 Universities who had to
sue Microsoft to collect the contracted $105 Million, in 2005, for all
the BSD TCP/IP stack, and other great features, without which Microsoft
 nor their users, could not even be on the Internet.

Microsoft actually fears one thing, and that is the huge grassroots
movement of Open Source.  Microsoft cannot compete with Open Source
code.  Their closed source business model that controls the user is dead
in most markets in the world.  China and India, plus Russia, the former
states; plus  South America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific countries are
all making their own versions of GNU/Linux that is in their languages,
and is free.

Poor people and poor nations are grabbing their chance to become
technologically competetitive, as this is their one opportunity to
become self reliant, in a new trading market on the Internet.

Linux lowered the entry fee so they can join in.  Microsoft profits
naught, but is drooling to go there, angry at the loss of the
opportunity to further it's "protection Racket" cartel in concert with
the many 'Trusted Partners" who all prosper from the "114,000 Microsoft
Virus and Malware Definitions".

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