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[Fred A. Miller]

ex-World Bank CTO: Desktop Linux interrupted 

"Now that former World Bank CTO W. McDonald Buck is chiming in on why desktops 
without Windows are "financially harder than you think," perhaps the Linux 
community will admit is has a problem. "The Microsoft monopoly," writes Buck, 
"has such a stranglehold on the tier 1 manufacturers that it is now not 
possible for a corporate shopper to save money by avoiding Windows unless 
they are prepared to go outside the first tier, or unless the size of the 
deal is large enough to merit special treatment." Hey, he said it, not me. 
But is it true? That doesn't matter. What matters is that this is how big 
customers think."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1008&tag=nl.e539

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