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Re: [News] [Rival] Ballmer's motives for buying the Web 2.0 community

____/ [H]omer on Saturday 20 October 2007 12:29 : \____

> It's not "buying", it "extinguishing".

Kind of like XenSource. They just needed to buy time until Viridian matures
(they have major hypervisor issues in Longhorn/WS08). Half a billion to
sockpuppet the Xen is easy money, but the real rival is VMWare. Stay tuned.

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