Ballmer bullish on future, bearish on Linux
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BOSTON -- MicrosoftÂ Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer addressed a gathering of software industry leaders here on Wednesday, touting his company's vision for a bright future, while casting doubt on alternatives to his company's Windows operating system, in particular Linux.
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Wall Street is hammering this nut processor, but, at today's prices, it looks interesting.
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The Motley Fool - Open-source software leader Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT - News) reports earnings after the bell today, and analysts are expecting a doozy. With on-again-off-again reports that Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) may enter the Linux market, Red Hat's stock has certainly been volatile, but management has been quite sanguine about further competition from the database giant. Is this one huge strategic misstep or savvy thinking? Read on for my thoughts.
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TechWeb - Customers are more interested in interoperability and virtualization than patent protection and intellectual property issues, despite the stir Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is creating in the open source community, says Novell.
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Ziff Davis - A news conference invite has sparked rumors about rewriting the Linux kernel, but sources say the much-hyped announcement is nothing more than a modest job-development initiative.
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A Wall Street analyst is predicting an assortment of new MacBook Pros and a good look at Leopard at next month's Worldwide Developers Conference.
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Red Hat hopes its latest release will lock in its position as the Linux leader as more companies vie for a piece of the competitive market.
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LinuxInsider: Microsoft&#39;s Steve Ballmer argued that the true amount of shifting from Microsoft to Linux in places like Europe and Asia has been overstated in the media.
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And sets alarm bells ringing in open source community Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that every user of the open source Linux system could owe his company money for using its intellectual property. The statement will confirm the worst fears of the open source community.â¦
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer warned on Thursday that Linux may not really be free given the intellectual-property risks that could be posed by the open-source operating system.
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer addressed a gathering of software industry leaders here on Wednesday, touting his company&#39;s vision for a bright future
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The graphics chipmaker is optimistic about the future, but competitors aren't standing still.
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Was this what Microsoft (Steve Ballmer) was growling and threatening about, when he told Asian countries: &quot;nice little Linux OS you have here.
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One of the minor ironies of the Linux world is the slight disconnect between the mantra of &quot;choice&quot; the most ardent advocates use to make the case for a multitude of graphical interfaces and the state of the North American enterprise Linux market, where a
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Is one mobile device capable of doing all things ever going to be a reality for your pocket? Microsoft's Steve Ballmer seems headed in that direction, even though some realize there are limits to unification.
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Linux veteran may be in for a roller-coaster ride in what so far has proved to be a controversial partnership between software giant, Novell.
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Red Hat (NOVL:Nasdaq - news - research) got its second upgrade in two week Tuesday, and promptly leaped northward. In recent trading, shares of the Linux Vendor were up $1.42, or 10.6%, to $14.84 in heavy volume.