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Microsoft buys data warehouse appliance maker DATAllegro
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| Perhaps the most interesting is that DATAllegro doesn't even support SQL
| Server at the moment. It was built on Ingres and Linux. Microsoft claims that
| it selected DATAllegro because its architecture is "open" and therefore
| easiest to port to SQL. But it certainly seems that by selecting an MPP
| player proven to scale beyond the capacity of the competitors (and one built
| on Linux no less) Microsoft has snipped the head off a competitor while
| filling in a hole in its offerings for SQL Server 2008.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/30311
The rich irony of Kevin Johnson's departure from Microsoft
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| Johnson, the man who for years fought against open source, and particularly
| Linux. The man who talked about Linux forking back in 2005 and then who, as
| head of Microsoft's Windows unit, must have been involved in trying to foster
| that fork with Microsoft's patent deal with Novell. The same Johnson who, as
| head of the Windows business, had to have been involved in Microsoft's patent
| campaign against Linux.
|
| Johnson, the man who now heads up a company deeply indebted to and entrenched
| with the open-source FreeBSD operating system at the heart of its JUNOS
| operating system, as well as Linux.
|
| Yesterday: Open source, Johnson's enemy. Today: Open source, Johnson's
| friend. Oh, how sweet the irony!
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9999376-16.html
Related:
Breaking: Newsvine Acquired By Microsoft — What is Microsoft going to do with
the Linux Hosted site they just bought?
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| The funny thing is, The site is hosted on Debian Linux...
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http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=383
Top secret: Microsoft's $6 billion open source play
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| 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.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1616039231;fp;2;fpid;1
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.
|
| [...]
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| 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.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;754084996;fp;2;fpid;1
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that. Perhaps Google on that layer, although frankly speaking,
| most of what we have there is upside. We're small and they're big. (With)
| most things, we're big and the other guy is small, so we have more to lose
| than gain. In this case, we have more to gain than to lose with Google.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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