Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:30:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) Message-ID: <199704081830.OAA13987@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970408110531.00b24c50@etinc.com> from dennis at "Apr 8, 97 11:05:34 am"
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> > its not THAT outrageous...if you think those guys can't be bought (they > already > have been, in fact), then you're head is in the sand....stranger things have > happened..... Anyone wanting to whip up their paranoia a level should get the latest issue of Upside. I don't think it is an April fool's issue. Some high points I remember include: Microsoft R&D $2e9 this year "and we're going to triple it" (they don't say how fast though); Microsoft hardware group revenues $3e6 per employee; Microsoft presenting 20% of the papers at SIGGRAPH; etc etc. Especially entertaining is the discussion of the Windows CE platform, which one article claims is a proprietary hardware and software product with the manufacturers competing to be low cost contract hardware manufacturers for Microsoft. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936
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