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If Microsoft wants its staff to understand the threat it faces from open source
it should charge them to use its own software
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| Is there another company in the world that would be able to afford to build a
| cloud computing platform using Microsoft products?
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| The fact that Microsoft’s development teams get to use Microsoft software for
| free protects them from the commercial realities of what it means to develop
| applications an infrastructure and run business using that software.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/06/19/if-microsoft-wants-its-staff-to-understand-the-threat-it-faces-from-open-source-it-should-charge-them-to-use-its-own-software/
Recent:
A Day to Remember: 23 April, 2009
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| And there's another reason why yesterday was significant: Microsoft announced
| what are probably its worst quarter results ever:
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| Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.65 billion for the third
| quarter ended March 31, 2009, a 6% decline from the same period of the prior
| year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the
| quarter were $4.44 billion, $2.98 billion and $0.33 per share, which
| represented an increase of 3% and declines of 32% and 30%, respectively, when
| compared with the prior year period.
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| Now, the global financial crisis certainly contributed to those figures, but
| I think there's a bigger underlying trend here, which is that the Microsoft
| money machine is faltering.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2136
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