On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 16:31, Steven Buehler wretchedly top posted:
> Don't forget that Symantec also apparently recently announced their migration
> from Microsoft to Linux.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eric Jahn
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:29 PM
> To: SLUG
> Subject: [SLUG] yesterday's NPR news spot
>
> Yesterday NPR had on it's 3 minute news blurb of top stories (after Iraq)
> mention of Hewlett Packard's decision to move big time into Open Source
> software as a revenue generating strategy. HP noted IBM's recent
> unexpectedly high revenue resulting Open Source support/services and wants in
> on the take. Then, the whiny-voiced NPR announcer mentioned how MySQL and
> JBoss factor into this emerging Open Source landscape.
<snip>
Weather.com has also moved to Open Source.
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