YAC

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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.

hrmm..this is *really* old news, at least a year.  That memo was making
the rounds in early 2002.

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