Microsoft has five main competitors when it comes to the enterprise market, COO Kevin Turner said today at the annual Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond. They are:
- Google -- (Google Apps, Google App Engine)
- VMware -- (virtualization)
- Linux/open source -- (client and server operating systems)
- IBM -- (database, Lotus Notes)
- Oracle -- (database)
A respectable number of companies, schools and governments have been switching their productivity and e-mail clients to Google's cloud offerings. Microsoft, with the Business Productivity Online Suite and Live@edu, is trying to maintain its productivity dominance as the computing world shifts to the cloud.
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