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Web Hosting SEO Expert Shifts Gear, Becomes Social Media Evangelist
WHIR - The Linux PC discussion thread on Dell got 82,599 votes. Couldn’t web hosting providers benefit from such a tool as well? Remember: biggest community wins through platform power , which isn’t available through SEO - or by increasing bandwidth/storage

Microsoft Responds to Alleged Ballmer ‘Threats’ Against Linux
Beta News - Comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last Thursday to an analyst conference for the most part went unnoticed until stories this morning cited excerpts from a freshly published transcript of that conference. In one such story, an excerpted

A News.com report on the server and Java company.
CNET News - HP argues that capturing Sun Solaris customers lets HP persuade them to buy Linux instead, but Sun argues that Solaris is the stickier relationship and that the operating system is leading to new customers. The other element of the program is geared