07.30.10
Microsoft’s Top Competitors Are GNU/Linux or Users and Vendors of GNU/Linux
Summary: In the enterprise market GNU/Linux seems to be Microsoft’s most dominant threat, not Apple
ONCE in a while Microsoft helps show why it is so preoccupied with GNU/Linux — to the point where it names GNU/Linux vendors like Canonical and Red Hat in its SEC filings and creates smear pages about both RHEL (server) and Ubuntu (desktop).
Microsoft’s GNU/Linux-hostile COO has just named enterprise competitors and they all have something in common:
Microsoft has five main competitors when it comes to the enterprise market, COO Kevin Turner said today at the annual Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond. They are:
* Google — (Google Apps, Google App Engine)
* VMware — (virtualization)
* Linux/open source — (client and server operating systems)
* IBM — (database, Lotus Notes)
* Oracle — (database)
All the above companies use GNU/Linux and sometimes rely on its thoroughly. As an aside, Microsoft is comparing company names along with a phenomenon or a Free software project, which is hard but that’s just what Microsoft is doing right there. It’s like naming Libya, terrorism, and Afghanistan as 3 threats (one is not an actual physical location/entity). █
“I’d put the Linux phenomenon really as threat No. 1.”
–Steve Ballmer, 2001
satipera said,
July 30, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Libya is a single party participatory democracy. Afghanistan has had major problems over the last few hundred years which will take a few more lifetimes to work out at least. Terrorism is a word for Fox News, children and politicians; please do not reach for that which is easiest. We have more than enough to be going on with simple business criminals.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
July 30th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
I had to pause before writing down some country names (and misspelling one as “Lybia” [sic]). I wasn’t making realistic allegations.