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Re: [News] Microsoft's Linux Snub Can Cost It Business

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:03:11 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Interview: Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| "With Microsoft, we meet them in smaller companies and where the competition 
>| is happening at the operating system level. If they customer says they want 
>| one person on Linux, then you can't use SQL Server, of course.”  
> `----
> 
> http://www.mycustomer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=133420&d=101&h=817&f=816
> 
> This is either an disadvantage to Microsoft or an illegal advantage.  They lock
> out competitors.

Uhh.. what?  He's not seriously pretending you can't have a Linux SQL
Server client, is he?  That will come as news to many people doing just
that.

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