Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Aug 2005 19:30 UTC
This interview with Bill Hilf, Microsoft's Linux Lab Manager, answers questions from readers of Slashdot. It speaks about OSS inside Microsoft, attitudes towards open standards, and of course Linux. "Believe it or not, I use more different types of OSS here at Microsoft than I've ever used before. Our team uses over 40 different flavors of Linux and BSD, plus several commercial Unix variants."
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2005-06-29
If your company buys Microsoft because it "makes administration easier" which they see as "we can lay off 50% of our IT people" then that won't help those people much either now will it? And three months down the road when the people are gone and new problems arise who will be there to solve them? New guys? Great, will they be thrown off for the next guy to say "I can get rid of half your IT burden?"
In the real world problems exist. And you don't listen to people who provide solutions which keep you out of the loop.