Time travelling to fight wars lost in history
Time travelling to fight wars lost in history
Posted Jan 17, 2006 8:35 UTC (Tue) by grouch (guest, #27289)Parent article: Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)
'Microsoft invests north of $6 billion a year on R&D. There is nobody in the Linux world' that does that, he says.
Looks like Microsoft is barely "north" of what IBM was doing in 2001, when Sam Palmisano gave his keynote address at LinuxWorld Expo. From a FAQ that was spawned by that speech:
IBM spends $5 billion a year on R&D. And we're putting a billion dollars behind Linux. But even all that is nothing compared to what the Linux community will generate spontaneously.
Based on a rough guess at the growth of Linux in the interim period, I'd say the R&D budget of Microsoft is sufficient to win "the Linux Wars" of 2001. MCP should post the amounts for Microsoft's 'CEO Snowjobs' budget and 'Governmental Puppet Purchasing' budget. They've lost the software development battle.