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Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Posted by philgomes 12:30 PM
Cries of "Oh, Shit" Heard from Pacific Northwest: c|net and ZDNet reporters have discovered that struggling, cash-hungry Amazon.Com was able to shave tens of millions of bucks off its technology budget by choosing the free, open-source Linux operating system over Microsoft's proprietary offerings. Seperately and further down the Left Coast, Intel used Linux and Napster-like peer-to-peer technology to reap a savings of $200 million.
What Micro$oft representatives have described as a "cancer" and "un-American" is obviously making strong inroads at two companies that serve as the pre-emptive metaphors for their respective industries: Amazon in e-commerce and Intel in chips. This has to worry Microsoft, which treated Linux dismissively in the very beginning, then quickly changed its tune when it needed to show the Department of Justice that significant competition to their operating system monopoly did exist.
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