It’s time to improve relations between Linux and Microsoft. Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microrosoft throws bridges relaxation …
(Boursier.com) – The truculent Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, has just completed a major about face … the businessman, who in 2001 considered Linux as cancer, has obviously put water in his wine at a dinner organized by the famous Fortune magazine. The Linux threat is now officially “in the mirror” of Microsoft.
“Linux is a cancer”
“The way the license is written, if you use open software source, you must make the rest of your open source software. [...] Linux is a cancer of the intellectual property that attaches to everything it touches “, affirmed in 2001 the former head of Microsoft who feared while with his freedom of code, the Linux penguin will bite a beautiful part of the Windows operating systems cake Microsoft and Apple OS X.
Ballmer, the icebreaker
the market share now occupied by the two American giants leave room for relaxation. The ice thus broken with the penguin, and Steve Ballmer may play officially opened 15 years later. The former CEO of Microsoft now recognizes the qualities and skills of the Linux operating system it considers to be “behind” and Microsoft “a bigger rival to Windows.” Sign of the times of peaceful relations or a shared commercial interests, Linux no longer appears as a competitor to the Redmond company. It’s true … Linux has failed the test of time to smooth the Microsoft market share. The penguin is left Tom Thumb, Microsoft can demonize the so!
Ballmer, opening VRP
Specifically, while the market challenge is not on equipment of machines in the cloud, Microsoft is open to open source, released the first Linux certification from Microsoft for the Microsoft Azure service. Good prince … Microsoft stands bridges with the teams of the open source OS. The shareholder Steve Ballmer therefore endorse the announcement of Scott Guthrie, vice president of Cloud and Enterprise division, to develop the Microsoft SQL Server on Linux. This will be a first for the Redmond, which will leave its database management system, probably in 2017, running on a platform other than his own.
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