__/ [ Sinister Midget ] on Friday 29 December 2006 12:12 \__
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 at 11:28 GMT, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
>> Previewing 2007: Akamai
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Since the beginning of 2004, Akamai has been a five-bagger. Sales
>>| and profits have ballooned. And free cash flow (FCF) -- which was
>>| nonexistent in 2003 -- has come within spitting distance of $100
>>| million over the trailing 12 months.
>>|
>>| Meanwhile, Akamai's competitive advantages remain intact. At the
>>| same conference where Sagan made his Kennedy-esque prediction,
>>| executive vice president of technology Chris Schoettle said that
>>| the firm's network of 20,000-plus global servers was outperforming
>>| rivals by a factor of 2.5.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2006/12/28/previewing-2007-akamai.aspx?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y
>> http://tinyurl.com/yex6ye
>>
>> Even Microsoft does a lot of business with this Linux company. I hope it
>> doesn't, as Ballmer and Gates would put it, get cancer or becomes
>> communist.
>
> It's funny that the company was not very strong or viable at the time,
> yet MS chose to hide their operations behind these guys. They chose
> Akamai even though it was in their financial and other interests to
> choose someone running Windows, or even to do it themselves.
>
> According to MS-Erik, MS chose them because of what they do, not
> because of what they run. But I find it interesting that MS would do
> business with someone who wasn't certain to even have a future at the
> time, who also "happen(ed) to run linux".
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;754084996;fp;2;fpid;1
<snip>
The next time Bill Gates sends an e-mail through Microsoft's shiny new
Wireless LAN it will be passed through a behind-the-scenes Linux-based
network appliance.
...
Pandey's (senior director of Microsoft IT) appraisal of Aruba's technology is
in stark contrast to Microsoft's "Get the Facts" rhetoric which places
Windows as a more secure, and higher-performing choice over Linux."
</snip>
http://archive.salon.com/tech/log/2001/02/15/unamerican/index.html
"Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the company
completely lost its mind?"
Treason at Microsoft Corp.?
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