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Microsoft and an 'Over the Top' Data Center Buildout?
Now consider the very same company building, running and maintaining 24 of the world's largest data centers. (And that's just Phase 1.)
- xirium 19y agoFrom the article: the company will surprise many with its plans to embrace open source. 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.