iPhone covergence: Microsoft and Red Hat
Thu, Jan 29th, 2009
Ubuntu @ Microsoft(Credit: Matt Asay)
If you were to try to think of the two most diametrically opposed software companies in the industry, Red Hat and Microsoft come to mind. One is the open-source leader, while the other has tenaciously held to its proprietary software background.
Red Hat believes that real customer choice comes from an open ecosystem of software. Microsoft believes something similar, but prefers customers buy into its own software ecosystem (Windows, SQL Server, SharePoint, etc.) and stay there.
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