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Microsoft is 'as aggressive as hell', says Red Hat chief

Publication:Silicon.comDate:Jun 02 2006
Reporter:Andrew Donoghue

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Three or four years ago, open source providers enjoyed plenty of attention. Just ask Novell, which more or less reinvented itself thanks to the open source fairy-dust provided by its acquisition of the Suse Linux distribution.

But now some of the disruptive energy seems to have dropped away, as attention turns increasingly to the collaborative potential of the web. Google and the buzzword du jour, 'web 2.0', are capturing the attention once enjoyed by the struggle between Linux, Windows and Unix. As the operating system layer becomes commoditised, focus appears to be shifting to the web as the real disruptive platform.




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