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Subject:Re: RE: LinuxWorld Show...where's the beef? From:pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net To:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> Date:Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:54:11 -0500
> John: it's a curiosity. People want to know why Microsoft has the
> chutzpah to
> be there. It's not out of admiration or envy.
It was my observaton that the presence was mostly 3rd party vendors who were seling compatibility with MS. The MS reps I spoke to guys who were assisting folks with getting Unix and Linux to be compatiible with MS products.
Don't forget that MS plans to continue as a support company in a big way.
> It's too bad you didn't stop at the Oracle booth, or maybe the IBM
> or HP
> booths. Then you might have seen how Linux is being used commercially.
>
