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HappinessNow
July 9th, 2009, 12:45 AM
August 20, 2003 4:00 AM PDT
Newsmaker: (http://news.cnet.com/2005-1082_3-0.html) Rockin' on without Microsoft

...So what did swearing off Microsoft entail?
We looked at all the alternatives. We looked at Apple, but that's owned in part by Microsoft. (Editor's note: Microsoft invested $150 million (http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft-to-invest-150-million-in-Apple/2100-1001_3-202143.html) in Apple in 1997.) We just looked around. We looked at Sun's Sun Ray systems. We looked at a lot of things. And it just came back to Linux, and Red Hat in particular, was a good solution....http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html