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[ILUG] Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!

[ILUG] Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!

david.howe at howesystems.com david.howe at howesystems.com
Fri Feb 1 12:48:46 GMT 2008


Does this mean that Microsoft is now one of the biggest users of open
source software? And they are paying $44bn for the privilege.


On Fri, February 1, 2008 12:30 pm, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 1 Feb 2008, at 12:20, Robert Sweetnam wrote:
>
>> A lot being an understatement!
>>
>> If it goes ahead it no doubt FreeBSD will be shown the door.
>
> Yahoo is a heavy user of FreeBSD and MySQL. No doubt M$ will want to
> eat their own dogfood but one presumes they'll be mindful of how big
> a job that was on Hotmail.
>
>
>
> Niall
>
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