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The IT industry shifts away from M$FT

People sometimes fault me for just posting a link to an article, without comment or summary. I’ve made a conscious effort to put down my ’so what’ thoughts within most of these postings.
However, sometimes we see an article that bears no more summary than just ‘read it’. I like this one for that reason: The IT industry is shifting away from Microsoft
A choice tidbit:

The fact is, if you are negotiating with Microsoft, and you pull out a SuSE or Redhat box, prices drop 25 per cent from the best deal you could negotiate. Pull out a detailed ROI (return on investment) study, and another 25 per cent drops off, miraculously. Want more? Tell Microsoft the pilot phase of the trials went exceedingly well, and the Java Desktop from Sun is looking really spectacular on the Gnome desktop custom built for your enterprise, while training costs are almost nil.

This article, for me, reads like Justice Penfold-Jackson’s decision back in 1999 - a scathing, point by point, cause and effect indictment. I’ve been watching M$ as it’s gone through each of these flails - from back when I was at Xerox and got to read Gartner’s defense of licensing 6.0. Altogether this is very satisfying.
Read it and wave your penguin flag.