A Bill Gates Interview on Google, Web applications and Open Source.
Very interesting, although it's a bit of a sales pitch. But the difference between the Microsoft software legacy and future trends is clearly evident.
He even talks about Frontbridge (an email company) -- we helped manage their massive MySQL Open Source database. It had more than a terabyte of data.
I don't know if Frontbridge was still using MySQL at the time of purchase, but when we worked with them they had a very strong open source culture, using Postfix, MySQL, PHP and Perl.
http://news.zdnet.com/Bill+Gates+takes+on+Google/2100-9593_22-5864352.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
That news is about Microsoft targeting the SMB market. Microsoft is also going after the web designers and web developers:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.aspx
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