Interoperability is top open source customer worry
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| The OSA singled out Microsoft, as opposed to Oracle or SAP, because its
| member companies mostly target midmarket customers, according to
| Sartorio. "We have one common competitor: Microsoft."
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/12/interoperability-open-source-worry_1.html
Microsoft tried to join also. It wants to keep its enemies closer (Gates'
words) to do damage from the inside.
Related:
Open Solutions Alliance Debuts New Showcase At LinuxWorld
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| Open Solutions Alliance was formed in February 2007 to drive the adoption
| and interoperability of enterprise class open business solutions.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-open-solutions-alliance-debuts-new-showcase-linuxworld-/2007/06/14/2713077.htm#6940899289156335151
Using open source as a marketing ploy
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| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html
"Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the company
completely lost its mind?
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| Feb. 15, 2001 | Once upon a time, Microsoft executives confined
| their criticism of Linux and free software to old-fashioned FUD
| -- fear, uncertainty and doubt. Linux wasn't good enough for
| enterprise-class systems, they declared. You couldn't get
| quality support, and it was too hard and clunky for average users.
|
| Fair enough. But now, judging by comments made Wednesday by
| Microsoft's operating systems chief Jim Allchin (and reported
| by Bloomberg News), it turns out that free and open-source
| software is something far worse than anyone could possibly have
| imagined. It is nothing less than a threat to the American
| way of life! "
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http://archive.salon.com/tech/log/2001/02/15/unamerican/index.html
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