Dana Gardner
Dana Gardner
cost costs discussion inherent likes microsoft obviously total
One of the things that has crept into the Microsoft discussion is usually Total Cost of Ownership. Microsoft likes to look at the long-term costs. They also like to look at the costs inherent in migrating from Microsoft to Linux, which is going to obviously be a complication.
complexity demand goal juggle reduce types
If your end goal is to reduce complexity in types of formats, you have to juggle -- you need to demand adherence to a set of standards, a framework, or a stack.
extending ibm microsoft opening
At the same time, Microsoft has not done well at extending its Communications Platform, nee Greenwich, so IBM has an opening here.
buyers came choice commercial deal flavors great microsoft mixture multiple open point sun technology ten worry
Ten years ago when Microsoft came out with NT the worry was that there would be little choice at this point in time. But technology buyers have a great deal of choice. We still have multiple flavors of Unix. We have Sun with a mixture of open and commercial Unix, and we've got Linux.
invisible largely
This is going to be largely invisible to the end user.
benefit consumers good microsoft player plays town
One of the things that Microsoft plays on is that consumers will benefit from this. If you're the only player in town then how good is that for the consumers?