http://groups.diigo.com/opendocument/bookmark/tag/internet Bookmarks from OpenDocument tagged by internet Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:17:04 -0000 http://opensource.org/node/245 <p>Michael Tiemann picks up where Mary Jo Foley left off. he takes her prescient arguments concerning Microsot's Open Source Strategey and xtends them to Microsot's bid for Yahoo! This is a must read!</p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><p>On the morning of February 1st 2008, Microsoft <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/01/technology/microsoft_yahoo/index.htm">announced an unsolicited bid of $44.6B hostile for Yahoo!</a>, and by the end of the day, Microsoft had lost $20B in <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT">market capitalization</a>. Where does this leave Microsoft's open source strategy and the analysis thereof?</p> <p>Yahoo! was a pioneering "internet company", one of the first to really create and capture value of a world newly web-enabled. And like many of these so-called internet companies (Google was another), Yahoo! built it infrastructure on open source technologies. Why? Better, faster, cheaper: Dave Filo and Jerry Yang were still poor college students back in the day, but smart. (As were Sergey Brin and Larry Page, but that's another story.)</p></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="http://groups.diigo.com/opendocument/bookmark/tag/internet">internet</a> <a href="http://groups.diigo.com/opendocument/bookmark/tag/microsoft">microsoft</a> <a href="http://groups.diigo.com/opendocument/bookmark/tag/opensource">opensource</a> <a href="http://groups.diigo.com/opendocument/bookmark/tag/oss">oss</a> <a href="http://groups.diigo.com/opendocument/bookmark/tag/yahoo">yahoo</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href="http://groups.diigo.com/opendocument/bookmark/garyedwards">garyedwards</a></p> Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:17:04 -0000