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Microsoft's Tired TCO Toffee
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| Those with good memories may recall a phase that Microsoft went through in
| which it issued (and generally commissioned) a stack of TCO studies
| that “proved” Windows was better/cheaper than GNU/Linux. Of course, they did
| nothing of the sort, since the methodology was generally so flawed you could
| have proved anything.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1599&blogid=14
Microsoft, Open Source Schizoids
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| The best word for Microsoft's attempts to deal with open source is schizoid.
| On the one hand you have the folks at the Open Source Lab, who are building
| what bridges they can -- and on the other, you have the rest of the company,
| including its marketing and PR divisions, who may end up undoing what good is
| done. At the end of the day, they're still a proprietary-platform outfit, and
| they have to uphold that.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/microsoft_open.html
Recent:
Microsoft, Novell Tag-Team Against Chinese Distros
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| Currently, the major Linux players in the China market are home-grown Red
| Flag; Hong Kong-based Sun Wah Linux; Japanese player TurboLinux; and Red Hat.
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| Of the other players, only TurboLinux has joined Microsoft's Interop Vendor
| Alliance, which seeks to help vendors insure interoperability between their
| applications and Microsoft's; the rest remain independent.
|
| [...]
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| Back in 2005, Sun Wah Linux announced the sale of nearly 142,000 Linux PCs in
| what it said was the largest Linux desktop rollout in China to date, to the
| Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education. Sun Wah also provided
| maintenance, tech support and Linux training to schools and universities
| supplied with its operating system.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62676.html
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