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The Empire (No Longer) Strikes Back
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| Tomorrow's fight will be about owning the cloud, and the main threat there is
| not so much Apache, as customised versions of open source software, of the
| kind employed by Google for its vast server farms: in the latest Netscape
| survey, Google has around 5% of the Web server market. It's still open vs.
| closed, but not as we know it.
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| The crucial point is that Microsoft failed to displace Apache, despite its
| almost limitless resources. This is the crucial lesson for the future, more
| important than any particular percentage market share: that Microsoft's
| attacks can - and have been - beaten off.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/empire-doesnt-fight-back.html
Open source again
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| The blog entry on open source seems to have generated more comments than
| anything else. Maybe it’s because all the EDA users want software to be free,
| and all the EDA producers are worried that it might head in that direction.
| Everyone has an opinion.
|
| In a seemingly off-topic thought, let me recommend Econtalk which is a weekly
| interview by Russ Roberts (a prof at GMU and Stanford) with someone
| knowledgeable on some aspect of economics interpreted in a wide sense. Last
| week it was Keynesian economics and the week before it was building schools
| in Africa. I typically burn it to CD each week and listen while commuting.
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http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/310039431.html
"We should whack them (Dell over Linux dealings), we should make sure they
understand our value."
--Paul Flessner, MS Senior Vice President, Server Applications Unit
Microsoft is already making private meetings to discuss the 'results'.
Recent:
Analyst: Zune phone unlikely, but 10% Microsoft layoffs 'reasonable'
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| Goldman Sachs believes the Redmond company is likely to reduce its headcount.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Goldman_Sachs_Zune_Phone_unlikely_but_10_Microsoft_layoffs_reasonable37091249.html
Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff
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| The rumor that Microsoft was set to lay off people on
| January 15th, 2009 is no longer a rumor but a fact. Staff
| at Microsoft have been informed that the company is
| readying major layoffs to its worldwide operations and it's
| not a small cut, either.
|
| Currently Microsoft employs about 90,000 people across the
| world and from what we're hearing, some 15,000 of those are
| expected to be giving marching orders come January 15th.
| That's almost 17 percent of Microsoft's total work force,
| not exactly a small number.
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http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11142&Itemid=38
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