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Microsoft hires SCO veteran as its Competitive Strategy guru
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| IBM and others have shredded Gupta's work for SCO, and a judge couldn't throw
| it out fast enough.
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| Gupta may be a great person, but he's not a UNIX, Linux, or Windows expert.
| Perhaps that's just what Microsoft wants? After all, SCO once said of Gupta
| that "he is able to laser-focus on product deliverables." If half-truths in
| the interest of competitive strategy are what Microsoft wants in terms of
| deliverables, Microsoft couldn't do better than to pull in the SCO team.
|
| Disappointing. Shame on you, Microsoft.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9936449-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Sandy Gupta Shows Up - Working at Microsoft - Updated
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| Guess where Sandeep Gupta landed after he left SCO? If I put a blindfold on
| you and told you to point on the map, you'd still guess Microsoft, wouldn't
| you? And you'd be right. From January, that is where he found a soft landing,
| as Director, Technical Competitive Strategy of the Server & Tools Division.
|
| [...]
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| This was back in 2004. They may think we all forgot, but Groklaw never
| forgets. And if I need to remind you, the SCO v. IBM case is yet to be
| tried. So Microsoft has hired Gupta midstream.
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| Here's what another famous computer expert, Brian W. Kernighan, said after
| reviewing Gupta's work:
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| Furthermore, in places, Mr. Gupta's conclusions of similarity depend on
| his selecting isolated lines of code from disparate places and putting
| them together as if contiguous blocks of code were involved (which they
| are not) and important differences did not exist (which they do).
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| So. You may draw your own conclusions as to why he is being rewarded with a
| plum position at Microsoft after a performance so stunningly rebutted. Mine
| is that he knows too much and that he fits in perfectly.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080505113024239
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| 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.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Microsoft's SEC:
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| A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system...
| To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales
| of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for
| our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline.
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http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
Related:
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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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| The litigation has been characterized as part of a proxy war being
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| waged by Microsoft against Linux, seen as a prime challenger to
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| Windows. Microsoft has been a prime funding source for SCO, but
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| earlier this month stunned open-sourcers by announcing a development
| pact for Novell's Suse-brand of Linux.
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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4679245?source=rss
Did Microsoft ruin SCO?
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| Which comes to the scenario in mind. Gates approaches McBride and puts forth
| a proposition that SCO should try and make money out of Linux. He offers to
| bankroll the operation in a backhanded manner and then steps back to watch
| the action unfold. His reasoning for doing this? To have a test run before he
| puts Microsoft through the same paces. Either way he wins.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/did-microsoft-ruin-sco-19663
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