Sergey Pumps Linux at Linux World

The Google and Linux love affair continues.

[Brett_Tabke]

Couple articles on Linux world where Sergey Brin gave the 'keynote' address.

Wired [wired.com]
InfoWorld [staging.infoworld.com]
ComputerWorld.com.au [computerworld.com.au]
IT-Director [it-director.com]

Rather interesting considering Microsoft recently called Google a competitor [webmasterworld.com].

[Knowles]

Could their use of Linux be why Microsoft views them as such a Competitor? I dont see MSN and Google as such since one is a portal and the other is a search engine. If I want news I might go to MSN if I want to search I might go to Google. If I want news I dont go to Google I go to the news sites. Just like I dont go to the news sites for searches. I think thair may be more at play here than we realize!

[infoc]

In the Yusuf Mehdi's article, (Corporate Vice President of MSN), the rationale for describing MSN as a competitor was that they were very much a portal - in that they offer such things as maps, financial info, stock quotes, phone lookups... and news.

Running Linux is not an issue for him.

[microsoft.com...]

[4eyes]

Strangely, Yusuf also compared 'the internet' to Las Vegas!

[Brett_Tabke]

From a Redmond point of view, anyone who uses Linux is a competitor.

[martin]

That means that they should view themselves as competittors too:

Remember We Have the Way out ;-)