By Jo Best
Published: Friday 03 September 2004
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Steve Berry
Location
UK
Occupation
Consultant
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Hmm.. So MS finally come out and say what most of us have known for years.
Bottom line guys, in the long run you can't compete with something that's free-no business can. All the lawyers, marketing gimmicks (Sql 2005 Express ?? err... snigger), tech wizardry won't wash anymore. When the devs start moving enmass to Opensource, as I believe will likely happen, although it'll take a while,
will we then see the end of MS as we currently know it ? Hmm...
You know, I think IBMs consortium decision to publicly back Opensource will probably send some serious shivers down the MS spines.
Big boys, playing big boys games... and with pretty scary consequences.
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