NYTImes has an interesting comment on Microsoft’s strategy to counter Linux:
Mr. Gates argues that Microsoft will retain its advantage over Linux by offering more on a feature-by-feature basis.
“They’re replacing their commodity leverage with a bundling strategy,” said Ted Schadler, a computer industry analyst at Forrester, and one of the authors of its recent Linux report. With the new software, he said, Microsoft’s business strategy is to integrate multiple applications — e-mail messaging, printing, Web page creation and the like — with its server operating system, but to charge for them separately depending on how extensively they are used.
