In the world of Linux, which company is the most large investor? Is IBM? Sun? Red Hat? Novell? Not, at least in this year, Linux's largest investor is the largest company that is successfully threatened.
Through this week, it spent $ 536 million and Novell's Tsing Gogo as jade, and then adds $ 1.4 billion to SUN's $ 1.4 billion in April this year. Microsoft has paid more than 2.4 billion US dollars, and they may use these money to develop , Marketing and Microsoft companies competing technology.
Microsoft pays a huge amount of money to the opponent to get rid of legal disputes. However, considering that the threat to pressing Linux is the best task since Microsoft's days, but after considering the payment of huge amount of funds and solutions to the competitor, a simple question is: Bill Gates crazy?
My opinion is that Gates' customary strategy in playing "crazy kreskin", he believes that no matter how much money can't save Novell or Sun's fate. However, it is the goal of Microsoft, which will reduce its troubles, increasing the uncertainty of open source software.
Microsoft has never really lost a lawsuit. Although some judges have made a ruling on Microsoft, they have never cause any injury to Microsoft, or to die for their competitors.
Microsoft has enough funds to solve legal disputes in their own wishes, whether by extending the procedure to an unreasonable time length, but simply saving the opponent. Sometimes, Microsoft can even achieve a stone three birds: solve the legal dispute, play the savior, and earn profits inadvertently, it purchased Apple's $ 150 million stock in 1997, and earned it when she was sold later.
For Sun and Novell, they have encountered difficulties in the market, and this money has to be observed for them. Since more than a decade, Novell has been exploring what products should be launched after NetWare, but it has not succeeded. If the Internet law enforcement makes the customer have been interested in Unix, Sun's situation will be worse than current. Currently, it still insists on its foot-footed business model, refused to give up hardware services such as chicken ribs, and put energy in operating systems and software. It is true that $ 1.9 billion is a lot of money, but it is still not enough to save Sun.
Although the two companies will continue to "ly" (even if there is no such thing as Microsoft's help, they will make a comprehensive threat to Microsoft. To this end, we turn our attention to IBM, Red Hat, and I call two companies "China" and "India", so that Microsoft's officials are uneasy, especially from China and India. Home vendor.
Compared with the beginning of the year, at the end of 2004, Microsoft's legal troubles should be much less, and for Microsoft, paying is not a big price, especially considering it is $ 65 billion in banks. Cash reserves.
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