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[News] Op-ed: What If Microsoft Moved to Its 'Dark Side'?

Microsoft & Linux: At What Point Is It Cheaper to Just Buy Novell?

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| Microsoft no longer sees itself as simply a Windows company. One recent 
| indication of this is their determination to buy the LAMP-centric 
| (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Yahoo! Instead of migrating all the tried and tested  
| Yahoo! services over to a Windows server infrastructure, wouldn't it be 
| simpler to establish Microsoft Linux through the acquisition of Novell?   
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http://java.sys-con.com/read/535178.htm


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Top secret: Microsoft's $6 billion open source play

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| This month's announcement by Microsoft to acquire digital marketing
| services firm aQuantive has revealed little on how the companies
| will integrate their IT, but inside information indicates the deal
| may be Redmond's largest commitment to free software.
|
| [...]
|
| Whether the businesses are complementary or not, Microsoft's integration
| work will no doubt involve a lot of open source software used by aQuantive.
|
| Information available from Atlas' Web site indicates the Internet software
| company employs extensive use of open source software including Linux,
| Apache, MySQL, and Solaris.
|
| Software engineers at Atlas' Raleigh office do client/server development in
| C and C++, software maintenance and "scripting", and developing and
| maintaining custom reporting capabilities.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1616039231;fp;2;fpid;1


It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux

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| What the press statement didn't mention is that Aruba mobility
| controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has
| aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows as part of
| its "Get the Facts" marketing campaign.
|
| [...]
|
| Pandey's 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.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;754084996;fp;2;fpid;1


Hip-hip-Hadoop!

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| Just one more reason why the Microsoft-Yahoo merger, if it happens, will be 
| hell: 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Go[t] that? 10,000 core processors running GNU/Linux at the heart of Yahoo. 
| Microsoft is damned if they do (rip and replace) and damned if they don't. Go 
| on, make our day, Steve....  
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/hip-hip-hadoop.html

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