Check out the diagrams and pie graphs on the bottom half of this article. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-14-011-26-NW-BZ-MS (from LinuxToday)
[Editor's Note: This article is the first part of a four-part series CNET News has launched this week entitled "A Mortal Microsoft". While this will be the only article LT will link to in the series, we wanted readers to be aware of the series and of the existence of a free PDF document where readers can read the entire four-day series immediately (though free registration is required). -ed.] http://news.com.com/2009-1001-961354.html Open source: Rebels at the gate By Mike Ricciuti Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 14, 2002, 4:00 a.m. PT "For years, Bill Gates and other top executives at Microsoft railed against the economic philosophy of open-source software with Orwellian fervor, denouncing its communal licensing as a 'cancer' that stifled technological innovation. ... The open-source movement also represents a larger threat to Microsoft that transcends any particular technology or company: The high-tech industry has undergone a psychological shift that encourages challenges to Microsoft, which for many years had been technologically possible but practically unthinkable. ... In a recent survey of 225 chief information officers, 29 percent said they owned Linux servers and 8 percent are formally considering buying them. More troubling for Microsoft, 31 percent of those who recently purchased a new Linux server used it to replace a server running Windows. (continued in article)
