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We could even do the poll in increments of 10% for OS, Enterprise, and Office 
categories.  So I could say 3 years and 40% of Exchange lost to MS.

Fun to brainstorm on this topic!
Dow


Keith R. Watson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Another sysadmin sent me this and I thought the list might like to know 
> about it considering Microsoft's previous stand on the subject of open 
> source.
> 
&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5185549.html";>http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5185549.html</a>
&gt; 
&gt; Microsoft -- facing increasing pressure from open-source competition -- 
&gt; made a nod to open source fans on Monday. The company &quot;published the 
&gt; code for one of its products on an open-source software development Web 
&gt; site late Monday, departing from its hard-line stance against making the 
&gt; underlying components of its technology available to the general 
&gt; public,&quot; CNET's News.com reported. &quot;Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft 
&gt; revealed the code for its Windows Installer XML (WiX) software, a set of 
&gt; tools used to build installation packages for the company's Windows 
&gt; products from XML source code. According to the information posted on 
&gt; the SourceForge site, a resource for open-source collaboration projects, 
&gt; the actual code Microsoft published supports an environment that 
&gt; software developers can use for creating Windows setup packages.&quot;
&gt; . CNET's News.com: Microsoft Airs Tools' Source Code Online
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/";>http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/</a>
&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://wix.sourceforge.net/";>http://wix.sourceforge.net/</a>
&gt; 
&gt;    this redirects to
&gt; 
&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/category/4625.aspx";>http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/category/4625.aspx</a>
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; in shock,
&gt; keith
&gt; 
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&gt; 
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&gt; Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
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