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MS targets Linux defectors with 'special' price discounts (Register)
Here's a Register article about
Microsoft's next campaign against open source - discounts. "Savage
discounts and easy payment terms available on Microsoft software, should
you look like you're about to jump ship for Open Source? We all know that
this kind of thing happens, but from what a Yankee Group analyst has been
telling Newsfactor, this semi-ad hoc procedure has been formalised as part
of a new 'Open Value' licensing programme, to be launched next
year."
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MS targets Linux defectors with 'special' price discounts (Register) Posted Nov 30, 2002 19:35 UTC (Sat) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] Is it just me, or doesn't this encourage companies to look seriously at Linux, if for no otherreason than to get a discount on the software they expect to have to end up buying anyway? You can save a huge amount of money on your software if you can make a good case for Linux, even if you don't think there really is a good case for Linux. Of course, not everybody who does this will base their case on price, and not everybody will be brought back by discounts.
MS targets Linux defectors with 'special' price discounts (Register) Posted Dec 2, 2002 9:26 UTC (Mon) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link] No, it just encourages companies to _say_ they're looking at linux - in order to claim their discount from The Beast. M$ still wins, long term, by keeping customers tied.This is anticompetitive behaviour - equivalent to "dumping" below cost price. I hope that the DoJ are still watching - but without much hope, as I'm pretty sure that the US Government is now run completely by corporate puppetmasters, mostly Micro$oft, together with the music and movie industries. Except that foreign policy is dictated by the oil industry. Heigh ho....
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