____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Monday 05 May 2008 15:22 : \____
> <Quote>
> Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, walked away from a
> Yahoo deal on Saturday still looking for an answer to his company’s
> fundamental problem: its time-tested recipe for success isn’t working
> against Google, the leader in the current wave of Internet
> computing....
>
> Microsoft remains a powerful company, and highly profitable, but its
> stock price has stagnated amid doubts about future growth. Years of
> antitrust scrutiny have tempered its competitive behavior in new
> markets.
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/technology/05soft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
>
> Google runs on Linux servers. The exact number is secret, but
> estimates have ranged up to a million.
Last year a source said half a million (or maybe it was the year before that),
but Gartner (Microsoft 'Partner Group') said 1 million. It must have grown
since then. I bet even Google does not know the exact number. Not all servers
are created equal, either. There's a nice interactive Google Map on the Web
which shows locations of datacentres. Google engineers use GNU/Linux on the
desktops also, but a portion uses Macs. Windows is just popular among the
other non-technical department.
Microsoft hasn't given up on Yahoo, but the longer it goes on for, the more
Google benefits. Yahoo and Live/MSN are frozen, uncertain, fragmented, etc.
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