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What Microsoft giveth, Jive taketh away
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| Will it work? No. Good startups are always looking to save money, and will
| appreciate the "free production licenses for application hosting and
| management servers, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft
| Office SharePoint Portal Server, BizTalk Server and Systems Center and soon,
| Microsoft Dynamics CRM," as OStatic suggests. But they're unlikely to move to
| Windows from Linux, for example, because Linux is a long-term performance and
| cost choice, not a three-year "I'll use it because it's free...for now"
| choice (which is all that BizSpark gets new startups.
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| [....]
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| The two companies - Microsoft and Jive - arrived at very different
| conclusions as to what would drive sales for them. This will ever be the
| case, and it's what makes open source, in particular, so fascinating. One
| person's cancer is another person's freedom, as it were. The value of 'free'
| shifts and changes over time.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10085691-16.html
Why Microsoft is running scared of Linux
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| Microsoft is frightened. Even Ballmer is telling users that they can skip
| Vista, which tells you everything you need to know about Vista's failure. In
| the past, Microsoft wouldn't have sweated this kind of flop. "What can users
| do?" they'd say. "Move to Linux or Macs? Ha!" That was then. This is now.
|
| Today, major PC vendors are selling netbooks like hotcakes on a cold Vermont
| morning and three out of ten of those are running Linux. As my comrade in
| arms, Preston Gralla observes, "Microsoft isn't just worried about ceding 30
| percent of the netbook market to Linux. It's also worried that if people get
| used to Linux on netbooks, they'll consider buying Linux on desktop PCs.
| Here's what Dickie Chang, an analyst at research firm IDC in Taipei, told
| Bloomberg about that: 'It's a real threat to Microsoft. It gives users a
| chance to see and try something new, showing them there is an alternative.'"
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/why_microsoft_is_running_scared_of_linux
Microsoft can't dump forever. They need income. They approach debt.
Recent:
Microsoft offers free software to start-ups
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| Microsoft has slashed the cost for internet and technology start-ups to use
| its software and servers in an attempt to attract the latest generation of
| programmers away from Open Source rivals like Linux.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/3386649/Microsoft-offers-free-software-to-start-ups.html
Microsoft's Biz Spark is Another Direct Shot at Open Source
http://ostatic.com/176551-blog/microsofts-biz-spark-is-another-direct-shot-at-open-source
Microsoft's Answer to The Open Source Threat
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| The introduction of BizSpark clearly indicates that Microsoft wants start-ups
| to defer from using open source software such as Linux.
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http://www.enterpriser.in/India/Know_It/Microsofts_Answer_to_The_Open_Source_Threat/551-94853-449.html
Microsoft offers South Korea $60 million 'encouragement' to use its software
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| IN WHAT APPEARS to be a rather desperate move by Microsoft, the firm is
| actually paying South Korea $60 million just to use its software.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/04/microsoft-pays-south-korea
Microsoft Against Free Software... But In Favor Of Paying Nations To Use Its
Software?
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| With more and more countries aggressively moving to embrace free and open
| source software, it appears that Microsoft is using its own money to its
| advantage, such as with this agreement to hand over $60 million to South
| Korea to get it to use its software, rather than the alternatives.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081103/1053402725.shtml
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