Is Microsoft Irrelevant?

Article Views: 72 Article Rating: / 0 At OSCON, a top software architect questions Microsoft’s relevance as Linux and open source march on into the enterprise and the overall computing landscape. Is Microsoft irrelevant? That's what Brian Aker, director of architecture at Sun's MySQL called the software giant in an onstage Q&A during the opening day of keynotes and sessions at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) here on July 23. Aker's response came to a question from O'Reilly Media CEO Tim O'Reilly, who asked Aker and Michael "Monty" Widenius, founder of MySQL AB and author of the MySQL server, a series of questions including their views on several leading companies in the computer industry. When it came to Microsoft, Aker replied that "Microsoft is irrelevant." O'Reilly chuckled at the response, and offered a bit of... [read full story]