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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (57871)	5/7/2001 6:16:11 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Linux is the future, say former Microsoft execs By: Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco theregister.co.uk While Microsoft pours buckets of vitriol over open source, some of its most distinguished former executives are backing Linux. Eric Engstrom was one of a number of key management who departed as the MS anti-trust trial wore on. He started and led the Direct X project, was general manager at MSN, and testified on behalf of the Evil Empire in the trial. Now, with a group of former Redmond colleagues, he's backing Linux. Their start-up Chromium is a Linux 'pure play', and he's effusive in his praise of the operating system. "Linux is an awesome operating system," he says. "On the server side Linux is the most advanced operating system out there today," he tells us, as it lacks the architectural baggage of Windows. "It can be much faster." ... Engstrom encourages both performance and price/performance comparisons between Linux running Chromium's Apache accelerator and Microsoft's Internet Information Server [IIS]. "It's a mistake to think of IIS as free," he says. "Parts of it are bundled, but a Windows license is still $1200."