http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31992.html
Two of the major corporate entities of the IT world, Microsoft and IBM, have radically different ideas of how the Internet and distributed computing are going to evolve. The fact that the former is dedicated to proprietary standards and the latter leans to open-source suggests, according to this article, the extreme degree of danger to Microsoft's future if the trend for good open source standards to drive out good proprietary standards continues.
Posted by jho at November 8, 2003 08:59 AM