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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: KLP who wrote (16043)11/15/2003 1:11:04 PM
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Someday, someone will make a better mousetrap

There already is one but the marketing is lacking :)
Two of the most popular Web companies, Google and Yahoo!, run on Open Source software.
- Google uses a Linux cluster with 10,000 machines.
google.com
- Yahoo! runs on FreeBSD Unix; Yahoo! Finance is served by the MySQL open source database.
mysql.com
public.yahoo.com

For a peek into the future consider Thailand: Microsoft market share has dropped to 40%, about one million Linux PCs will be sold there this year. #reply-19505066
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