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Re:Very clever FUD. Now the truth.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 08, 2002 08:56 PM
> It's like amazon.com switching from unix to linux and saving 17 million dollars, it hurt SUN, not microsoft.

Amazon replaced SUN servers with Intel boxes.

To run the Intel boxes they chose Linux rather than Windows.

I'd say it hurt both SUN and Microsoft.

Plus, those millions of Intel-based web servers that are running Linux or BSD, instead of Windows, have cost Microsoft a few $billion in sales.

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