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● 09.23.09

●● Microsoft and “Corporate Politics”

Posted in Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Virtualisation at 2:35 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Why it is that companies sometimes choose the inferior product and how Free software is affected

LAST month we showed that Microsoft had a habit of leading to migrations without permission, usually enabled by what Microsoft calls the “insider friend, ‘the fox’.”

=> migrations without permission | what Microsoft calls

A new article from Paul Venezia gives a good example of this:

=> ↺ new article from Paul Venezia

Ramming Microsoft down IT’s throatWhy would you gamble with the foundation of your server infrastructure? As it turns out, corporate politics can even screw up virtualization[...]The other thing that caught my attention was “We’re a Microsoft shop.” Many places are Microsoft-centric, but exactly zero are 100 percent Microsoft.

Microsoft tries serving Kool-Aid and then relies on people from the inside who are obedient enough to choose Microsoft’s less capable offerings. In the Free software world, developers too seem to have such insiders who promote .NET, OOXML, Silverlight, and so on. Here is another new post from the Mono-Nono Web site. █

=> insiders who promote .NET, OOXML, Silverlight, and so on | ↺ another new post from the Mono-Nono Web site

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