____/ Rex Ballard on Wednesday 09 January 2008 19:16 : \____
>> | Emerging countries are also lucrative markets for Linux, says IDC's
>> | Gillen, because there isn't as much of the legacy Windows technology to
>> | have to displace.
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> In many cases, it's just the opposite. In many emerging markets,
> Linux is the entrenched technology, and it is Microsoft who has a hard
> time establishing a foot-hold in these markets. Microsoft ignored
> most of these markets when Red Hat was seeding them, because there
> wasn't enough real revenue in it. Then, when these emerging markets
> started experiencing double-digit economic growth, the market had
> already been generated using Linux. Microsoft often had to confront
> markets who percieved Windows and Microsoft applications as a drag on
> productivity.
This is Al Gillen who made the argument. He is frighteningly close to Microsoft
and he regularly spreads Linux FUD. If you don't believe me, I'll show you
plenty of evidence. If the trolls challenge this argument, I'll ignore (and
not see their requests anyway).
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