C'mon, their valuation after this is something like 15 million USD. That is much for a company not selling anything but support contracts and GPL'ed cds. However, Caldera's valuation is 30 milj USD and Red Hat is... 672 million! Ok, the Hat has other hassles going on but these little companies having just a distro as their core product... Hint: SELL, SELL, SELL!
Mundie ruled. The presentation and Q&A with him was undoubtedly the most waited event of the convention.
The point of Mundies speech was that Microsoft is a learning machine. Learning from open source - they'll adopt community collaboration & shared source. However, big picture is that microsoft serves the interest of numerous customer groups in a number of areas and languages around the world where open source won't have access. Microsoft offers software for customers that have completely different requirements and viewpoints than linux zealots at/.
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C'mon, their valuation after this is something like 15 million USD. That is much for a company not selling anything but support contracts and GPL'ed cds. However, Caldera's valuation is 30 milj USD and Red Hat is ... 672 million! Ok, the Hat has other hassles going on but these little companies having just a distro as their core product... Hint: SELL, SELL, SELL!
Mundie ruled. The presentation and Q&A with him was undoubtedly the most waited event of the convention.
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The point of Mundies speech was that Microsoft is a learning machine. Learning from open source - they'll adopt community collaboration & shared source. However, big picture is that microsoft serves the interest of numerous customer groups in a number of areas and languages around the world where open source won't have access. Microsoft offers software for customers that have completely different requirements and viewpoints than linux zealots at