[Linux-bruxelles] Re: [Membres] Linux is Microsoft's biggest competitive challenge ever

[Stefane Fermigier]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:58:39PM +0100, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6697
> 
> Linux is Microsoft's biggest competitive challenge ever 
> 
>  Belluzzo spills the beans
> 
>  By Paul Hales: jeudi 12 décembre 2002, 08:55 
> 
>  WHEN RICK BELLUZZO left the number three job at Microsoft, to later become 
> chief cheese at Quantum, rumours arose suggesting it was strife at the hands 
> of Steve Ballmer that forced him from Voledom. 
> 
> Beluzzo, in an interview, doesn?t deny his approach was "different" from the 
> typical Microsoft executive, but avoids dishing the dirt on Ballmer. Instead 
> he evidently finds a certain liberation in being able to talk about Linux. If 
> "someone raised the subject of Linux, I didn't jump up and scream. I said, 
> 'Talk to me about why you like Linux, and let's talk through this.' That was 
> a different approach than the norm," he says in a revealing interview at 
> computerworld.com. 

Avant d'être brièvement no 3 de Microsoft, Beluzzo était CEA de SGI.
C'est lui qui a lancé SGI sur Linux pour ses stations de travail graphique
à la place de Windows NT. Ca relativise un petit peu ce qui est dit
dans l'interview.

	S.

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