Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

> As far as I understand META's prediction is that Linux will grab a
> larger share of servers than now,

That part everyone including Microsoft as claimed/admitted.

> and M$ will be forced to port their
> DB and other server side s/w for it or lose the market share for those
> apps.

M/S has for years been working on this in the typical Microsoft way.
Besides their usual FUD program, they have been agressivly marketing
and "improving" their server products.


> I didn't see any statement that M$ are actually planning
> anything of the sort.

Which would be highly unlikely in the current enviornment. If M/S had
been split into two companies, windows and everything else, by the
Justice Department it probably will have happend. At this rate it looks
like the Justice Department will be split and M/S left intact. :-)

Geoff.

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