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MS UK reorganisation http://www.silicon.com/news/500020-500001/1/4533.html?nl=d20030606 Slightly edited from there:- ..."its seven business units: client, information worker, server platforms, business solutions, MSN, CE/mobility and home and entertainment. ... respectively look after Windows, Office, Windows Server 2003, mid-range ERP and CRM software from acquisitions Great Plains and Navision, MSN internet operations, the Windows Smartphone OS and Xbox. *** Three units - those responsible for Windows, Office and server software - are the cash cows that allow investment in the other four units. *** " I have not seen it quite so clearly set out that Linux and other OSS operating systems, office and infrastructure tools and products are the competition for the over-priced profit-making elements of MS which are being used to support their efforts to drive everyone else out of every other market as mentioned. Actually, with most of the MS and channel selling clearly going on in restaurants and quiet unpublicized meeting places, the visible signs of this adversarial process are surprisingly quiet and civilised - this may not last. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.