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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft & Linux: At What Point Is It Cheaper to Just Buy Novell?
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>> | Microsoft no longer sees itself as simply a Windows company. One recent
>> | indication of this is their determination to buy the LAMP-centric
>> | (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Yahoo! Instead of migrating all the tried and
>> | tested Yahoo! services over to a Windows server infrastructure, wouldn't
>> | it be simpler to establish Microsoft Linux through the acquisition of
>> | Novell?
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>> http://java.sys-con.com/read/535178.htm
>
> So what's new here?
> Failing companies always think the grass is greener on the other
> side and start buying media companies, advertising companies
> and stock brokers thinking they know better.
>
> Historically most have ended in disaster.
Microsoft is quite doomed with or without Yahoo. I'm not the only one arguing
so. Microsoft just happens to choose to become irrelevant and take down
Yahoo /with/ it.
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
No Recession at Red Hat
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| It is flattering to be mentioned, Mr. Whitehurst said, but he noted that
| corporate customers and the industry benefit from what he called Red
| Hat’s “Switzerland status” — not being a province of one of the major powers
| in the technology industry.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/no-recession-at-red-hat/
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