Martin Taylor, global general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft, talks to vnunet.com about how the company is handling the open source threat. I always enjoy hearing what the MS folks have to say on the non threat that is Linux.

“We spend time trying to educate customers in the marketplace when we think we’ve got a pretty good story to tell.”

“Then I’ve got a technical team. I’ve hired quite a few people from the Linux open source world to run a research and development centre.”

“Then we bring consultants from the Linux open source space to help us build solutions. We’ve got every Linux distro running; about 120 servers all with varying degrees of open source stacks on them.”

There you have it the world’s largest user of Linux is Microsoft at last count they were running every Linux distro:-) Read the full interview

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