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Microsoft and an 'Over the Top' Data Center Buildout?

2 pointsby socrateesabout 17 years ago
Now consider the very same company building, running and maintaining 24 of the world's largest data centers. (And that's just Phase 1.)

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xiriumabout 17 years ago
From the article: the company will surprise many with its plans to embrace open source.<p>Microsoft's market capitalisation is 253.15 billion dollars. Redhat's market capitalisation is 3.47 billion dollars. MySQL's market capitalisation is 1 billion dollars. Other open source companies form a long tail and make the size of the open source market quite arguable. Regardless, I would be surprised if Microsoft obtain 2% of revenue from open source in 2008. I'll be more surprised if revenue from open source fully offsets losses from comparable but open source operating systems, databases and productivity applications.