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In a joint interview with CNET News, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and EMC's Joe Tucci talk about the pressures on tech spending and about partnering to woo customers.
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EMC is very expensive for business, has its tentacles in many OEMs (Dell is an example), and is losing marketshare to cheaper and faster NetApp and similar competitors.
Microsoft is very expensive for business, has its tentacles in every large OEM, and is losing marketshare to cheaper and faster Linux, VMWare and similar competitors.
Faster? I don't think so - but maybe you can point to something that says definatively that Linux let's say Redhat disty is faster than Windows 2008 please show otherwise quit with the widespread remarks that have no actual proof.
...into the ground.
(Unless you want to call losing marketshare and presiding over one of the most disastrous product launches/sales "ridiculously successful")
- by jtjt145 February 3, 2009 2:02 PM PST
- Ballmer's comment: "To save 5 (percent) to 10 percent, you have to save a little bit on a lot of things..."
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- by jessiethe3rd February 3, 2009 8:11 PM PST
- Yeah... more reliable and supportable? Are you kidding me - could you point to some actual PROOF that it is more reliable?
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(9 Comments)The first thing coming to wind, when thinking about cost savings in IT, would be: Get rid of anything MicroSoft in your shop and replace it with OpenSource: It's cheaper and more reliable in the first place.