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  Microsoft Talks Tough on Linux
Time: 01:25 EST/06:25 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Todd Richardson

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday devoted an entire 40-minute session at its annual financial day here to the competitive threat posed to its business by open source software and Linux. In a presentation entitled "Competing and Winning Around Linux," Kevin Johnson, the group vice president of worldwide sales, marketing and services group, said the company's focus was now to target some very specific workloads.

Microsoft is looking at the total Linux server installed base, targeting the very specific solutions that could be of value to its customers, and fine-tuning its value propositions with regard to these workloads, including Web serving and HPC (High Performance Computing).

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