Microsoft buys stake in company tying Linux to Windows

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, John Esak wrote:
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>> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Tony Ryder
>> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:32 AM
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>> Subject: OT: Microsoft buys stake in company tying Linux to Windows
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>> Microsoft buys stake in company tying Linux to Windows
>> John Fontana, Network World
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>Wow!  That sounds pretty good...   :-)

Microsoft has a long history of buying companies that produce
products that compete with their Windows base, RealWorld and
similar accounting software, inexpensive SMTP servers when the
Microsoft Internet mail servers were about $5,000, and others.
Rarely do these *nix products last long after the acquisition.

Microsoft embraced and extended Kerberos specifically to make it
difficult to run their Windows clients on non-Windows servers.  I
don't see them being interested in promoting a product that makes
it easier to do this.

Bill
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