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[News] Ballmer Scared of GNU/Linux; Tucci and Ballmer Create Coalition Against GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Ballmer Scared of GNU/Linux; Tucci and Ballmer Create Coalition Against GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:12:35 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.9
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Microsoft and EMC renew their vows

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| Q: Who do each of you see as your biggest competitor today in the corporate 
| technology world? 
| Ballmer: I think if you look on the enterprise side today, there's two 
| primary forces. I would say certainly Oracle is on the list of primary 
| competition and then primarily Linux-based alternatives.  
| 
| Now, IBM shows up for sure. In certain spots we overlap with Cisco. Google is 
| starting to show up a little bit. But certainly Oracle is a primary 
| competitor as is Linux. But Linux as sponsored by IBM, but it's Linux more 
| than it is any IBM product. That's the big competitive dynamic for us in the 
| enterprise.     
| 
| [...]
| 
| Ballmer: And the partnership makes us stronger versus our Linux-based 
| alternatives on the desktop. Part of the way we compete with open source 
| desktop stuff is by having stronger total value-add. We can't beat Linux on 
| initial price. So, the notion of being able to go and say, here's a solution 
| that you can really use to do fantastic security, fantastic data loss 
| prevention from the client through the back-end, that's a powerful part of 
| our proposition. And that's an example of how you get these things to 
| dovetail.       
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10156015-75.html

Look how afraid of GNU/Linux Microsoft is.

Microsoft is now using EMC to hijack VMware from the inside.


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?
|
| 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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