[svlug] Microsoft's 10-K filing with the SEC

[John Conover]

Microsoft mentions Linux as a competitor in its 10-K filing with the
SEC:

      "Operating systems. Microsoft's operating system products face
      substantial competition from a wide variety of companies. Major
      competitors such as IBM, Apple Computer, Compaq (Digital
      Equipment Corporation), Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and
      others are vertically integrated in both software development
      and hardware manufacturing and have developed operating systems
      that they preinstall on computers of their own manufacture. Many
      of these operating system software products are also licensed to
      third-party OEMs for preinstallation on their
      machines. Microsoft's operating system products compete with
      UNIX-based operating systems from a wide range of companies
      including IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, The
      Santa Cruz Operation, and others. Variants of UNIX run on a wide
      variety of computer platforms and have gained increasing
      acceptance as desktop operating systems.  Over the past year the
      Linux operating system has gained increasing acceptance, and
      leading software developers such as Oracle and Corel have
      announced that they will develop applications that run on
      Linux. As PC technology increasingly moves toward connectivity
      and communications, Microsoft's operating system products will
      face increased competition from network server operating systems
      such as Novell's NetWare, Banyan's Vines, the many variants of
      UNIX, IBM's OS/2, "middleware" products such as IBM's Lotus
      Notes, and intranet servers from Netscape, IBM, Sun
      Microsystems, and others."

The entire document is quite interesting, and available at
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/0001032210-98-001067.txt. It
runs about 179,000 bytes, and is well worth browsing.

        John

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