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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Charges Linux Server Company Some 'Protocol Tax'

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Charges Linux Server Company Some 'Protocol Tax'
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:14:33 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Scalix: A Microsoft ‘Exchange killer’ no more?

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| What do you make of Microsoft’s latest interop deal? Is Microsoft simply 
| trying to assimilate its competitors before they can do more damage to 
| Microsoft and its products? Or is Microsoft, as its execs claim, trying 
| to “foster innovation that benefits the overall IT ecosystem” via the deal?   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=645

Press release at:

Microsoft and Xandros Expand Collaboration

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0291030.htm

Licensing protocols instead of using open standards. Does anybody still think
that the Novell-like deals are good for Linux?


Related:

Xandros Acquires Open-Source E-mail Vendor Scalix

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| Vice president of finance Walter Lim will also leave the company; the sales 
| support staff and the staff of engineers—a total of about 13 people—will all 
| stay on with Xandros, Typaldos said.  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2159823,00.asp

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