YAC

[Joel Hammer]

Yet another convert.
You may have missed the article in the Wall Street Journal I believe
about IBM is beating the trend towards many small servers by pushing
linux on its "Big Iron" servers.
Interesting.

Today in the NY Times we find this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/15/technology/15SOFT.html

MS has noticed linux.

Here is one quote from the article:

     The memo [Confidential internal memo at MS] on protecting
     sales of Windows and other desktop software mentioned
     Linux, a still small but emerging software competitor
     that is not owned by any specific company. "Under NO
     circumstances lose against Linux," Mr. Ayala wrote.

Read the article. Basically, MS has a slush fund for offering deep
discounts to customers who are thinking of linux.

I have always thought that the major beneficiary of linux would be MS
users, who would get a better product from MS because of the fear of
losing sales to linux.  I never thought of this angle, though. Competition
is good.

Joe