IBM Acquisition Targets Microsoft's Small Business Server
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| IBM is acquiring Net Integration Technologies, a Toronto-based developer of
| Linux-based business server packages that compete head-to-head with
| Microsoft's Small Business Server. Net Integration will become part of IBM's
| Lotus Software operation in what Lotus general manager Michael Rhodin
| described as a bid to refocus Lotus on the SMB market.
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Related:
Incubating Innovation
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| IBM's Emerging Business Organization, for example, has produced businesses
| based on innovative technologies such as Linux, generating over $2 billion in
| annual revenues. Hewlett-Packard has grown its printing business to be the
| dominant source of its profits.
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http://tinyurl.com/2v2t8l
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| "We've moved past the ideology," said Sutor, in Salt Lake City
| Thursday to attend graduation ceremonies at Neumont University."
| Many people have figured out that there are a number of ways tom
| ake money from the 'open source' model."
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| [...]
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| The litigation has been characterized as part of a proxy war being
| waged by Microsoft against Linux, seen as a prime challenger to
| Windows. Microsoft has been a prime funding source for SCO, but
| earlier this month stunned open-sourcers by announcing a development
| pact for Novell's Suse-brand of Linux.
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| IBM is watching the apparent about-face with interest - and
| skepticism. "I don't see [Microsoft] doing very much yet for open
| source that isn't at arm's length," Sutor said. "Possibly this is
| a way of perpetrating previous [anti-Linux] strategy while
| superficially looking better."
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