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Enterprise open source Toolkit

Story: Battle continues over true cost of Linux

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Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 8 April 2005, 7:02 PM)

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DiDio complains of being called DiDiot--all apologies but I suppose it's difficult to modify DiDio into "shill".

Her "independent" study done with the help of Sunbelt Software has been shown here:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040324085956154

to be yet another MS backdoor hit:

" "Located in Tampa Bay, Florida, Sunbelt Software is the first and one of the largest providers of "best-of-breed" Windows NT, 2000/2003 utilities, supplying the tools necessary to support a Windows NT/2000 infrastructure. Working in partnership with innovative software developers, Sunbelt Software produces leading edge utilities and provides mainframe quality technical support. Sunbelt Software Inc. is a member of the 2001 Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing companies. . . .

"Sunbelt is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner interested in what Windows network administrators need to solve their NT/2000 problems. We are constantly surveying NT/2000 administrators to determine which utilities are most in demand, and we then release best-of-breed solutions, leveraging the Internet as our primary marketing medium. Our client list contains over 90% of the Fortune 1000.""

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