The nature of the two-pronged attack Microsoft will be mounting on Linux in the server market became clearer at yesterday’s analyst meeting, as
Ballmer and Gates on the one hand claimed a storming first few months for Windows 2003, and on the other ramped up “intellectual property” and “open
ended liability” for customers issues. The first of these, essentially about convincing everybody you’ve won already then converting the claims to
reality, is a (or whould that be ‘the’?) traditional Microsoft sales and marketing play, while the second, only to be expected, plays the SCO Linux
litigation for all it’s worth.
Ballmer and Gates on the one hand claimed a storming first few months for Windows 2003, and on the other ramped up “intellectual property” and “open
ended liability” for customers issues. The first of these, essentially about convincing everybody you’ve won already then converting the claims to
reality, is a (or whould that be ‘the’?) traditional Microsoft sales and marketing play, while the second, only to be expected, plays the SCO Linux
litigation for all it’s worth.
Link: theregister.co.uk
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