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Microsoft's biggest threat: Linux
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| Now, here are some questions about these supposedly major-domo competitors to
| Microsoft, and I'm sure, that you can easily guess the answers:
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| 1) What was it that made Google such a serious net platform player, with
| enough power and flexibility to serve the world's Internet needs?
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| 2) What was it that made netbooks possible in the first place?
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| 3) What gives netbook manufacturers enough leverage to screw Microsoft down
| on OEM licence costs?
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| 4) What is it that makes products like Amazon's Kindle and hundreds of other
| e-book, portable media and mobile Internet gadgets possible, all by eschewing
| Microsoft's embedded OSes?
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| The answer of course, is Linux.
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| Without Linux, there would be no Google. No startup could afford to
| build a platform on hundreds of thousands of servers which required
| either proprietary hardware (ie, Sun servers, circa 1998) or proprietary
| system software (ie, Microsoft's Windows Server.) Further, how
| comfortable would Google be in competing with Microsoft in the Internet
| space, if Microsoft 'owned' its server platform, the basis of Google's
| ongoing business?
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012172o-2000630136b,00.htm
Recently, in a CNET interview about EMC, Ballmer again admitted that Linux is
the #1 threat to Microsoft. He said the same last year (link below).
Related:
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
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