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Microsoft trains staff in Linux and Java

Tom Warren   on 06 May 2003 - 11:22 · 5 comments & 479 views

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140 consultants now fully equipped to 'understand the competition'

Microsoft is training around 140 of its consultants in Linux and Java, acknowledging the growing threat posed by these rival technologies.
Sources close to Microsoft indicated that the consultants, based around the world, would be given training in open source operating system and Sun's programming language, with which Microsoft's C sharp competes.

But the software giant claimed the training was about enabling consultants to understand other options that Microsoft's customers might be offered and that there was no fixed quota of consultants undergoing the programme.

"There is no defined number of people Microsoft Services will have trained in Linux and Java 2 Enterprise Edition [J2EE]," Microsoft communications manager Larry Meadows told vnunet.com.

"There are no hard and fast rules around how many consultants are trained and on what particular technologies."

News source: vnunet.com


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#1 vetsmek on 06 May 2003 - 13:41
wooop de lalalala
#2 madjo on 06 May 2003 - 16:01
I would find it very funny if we would see a real software package of MS (for instance Word) on a linux machine, developed by MS
#3 ryuh3d on 06 May 2003 - 16:47
This just makes sense. They need to be able to say "Linux can do this, while Windows 2003 does this" Or C# is better because Java is slow at... It is all about selling. You can't sell something as better if you say it is "better just because"
#4 Rock on 06 May 2003 - 17:57
This is news? Microsoft has been doing this for years. They already have teams devoted to this. They have tons of internal research on the competition. Every company does this. You need to know your competition. Sun probably does the same thing to figure out where they screwed up and where the competition beat them. Why this is a breaking headline is beyond me.
#5 nacs on 07 May 2003 - 07:19
I agree with Rock. Linux is valid competition to Windows (especially in the server market) and any company with common sense would check out what the competition is doing.

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