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[LOL + Hypocrisy] Microsoft to open source: Please don't compete on price!

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Thursday, April 23, 2009
15 years ago2,690 views

Recently, Microsoft's open-source team lead, Sam Ramji, urged open-source vendors not to compete with Microsoft on price, but instead focus on "value."

   Microsoft would like nothing more than to not be reminded of how expensive its products can be compared with open-source solutions. After all, Microsoft was the company that turned the software industry on its head by introducing lower-cost solutions years ago to undermine the Unix businesses of IBM and Hewlett-Packard, and the database businesses of Oracle and IBM.

If anyone knows the importance of pitching the market on low-cost, high-value software, it's Microsoft. And if anyone knows how to stick its finger in the eye of more expensive rivals, it's Microsoft, too, which has recently been blaring a "We're cheaper! Buy from us!!" message to combat Apple's in-roads against its Windows dominance.

Now Microsoft is being out-Microsoft'd by open source and doesn't much like the feeling. I weep for it.

Open source, in many ways, is doing to Microsoft and the rest of the proprietary software industry what Acer is doing to the personal computer industry, as highlighted recently in BusinessWeek.

Source:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10222336-16.html

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