Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer rates customer inertia ahead of open-source software and search titan Google as Redmond's greatest competition.
Ideologues have to fade into the background and keep their philosophical debates within the the community.
Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer is in Sydney to meet with key customers and partners, and give corporate executives the Redmond view of "innovation with impact".
IBM and Novell's inking of contracts to formally become members of the NSW government's Linux and open source panel should finally start delivering some real competition in state procurement.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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