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A friend of mine explained to me over the weekend that open source is good for most companies, it gives them something to build on, or adds utilities to their proprietary software.
Open source only becomes a threat when you want to control ALL the layers, i.e. from the OS right up to the applications. It only becomes a problem for you if you have something for all the markets, and you want to dominate all of them.
That says a lot.
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
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From: David Messer [SMTP:dmesser_at_prospective-health.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 7:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: OT -- MS makes a statement about open-source
software movemen t
Sounds like MS is afraid Open Source Software (OSS) will undermine
MS. Hard
to imagine a big company like MS being upset that it's competitors
are
selling ``flimsy,'' ''flawed,'' products that might 'jeopardizing
property
rights'.
David
-----Original Message-----
Patrice J
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 2:22 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
movemen t
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010503/tc/microsoft_linux_dc_2.html
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010503/tc/microsoft_linux_dc_2.html>
Let me know what you think.
: )
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes
Technology Services | Services technologiques
Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique
Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des Maritimes, MPO
E-Mail: boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca <mailto:boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
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