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Posted by: Amy Wohl (Saturday 6 March 2004, 5:05 PM)

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I think you mistake the integrated solutions that Microsoft provides as being the only way to have easy to create, complete solutions. Open Standards and Open Source are all about allowing markets to form that will offer a variety of choices, all of them open-ended. If users demand complete solutions, a vendor will package a variety of Open Source (that could mean Linux) products together into a solution. That's what Novell does with their desktop. Expect more -- much more -- of that. Microsoft's solution isn't wrong, it just isn't the only way to do this.

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