Can Open Source Trust Microsoft?, May 04, 2005

... I do think that Microsoft is seriously trying to reach out to the open-source community … and strangle it.

I read a fascinating article in The Inquirer (not the one from Florida, the one from the U.K.) last week. In it, IT gadfly Nick Farrell documents his attempts to install SuSE Linux 9.3 on his home computer.

Bill Cook has left Sun Microsystems to take a new job as sales chief at Linux system seller Penguin Computing.

But analysts suggest Sun's other motivation is that it is losing some of its government accounts to IT managers who have turned to Linux on cheap x86 servers over the last few years.

Silicon Graphics India (SGI) has announced the availability of the world's first Linux OS based visual computer product line, the Silicon Graphics Prism family of visualization systems.

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