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The problem is anti-competition through bundling. If you're big enough on the MS side you'll get SQL and all its doodads for free.

Great for my job but an impossible fight to get anything else in there.



Agree - it's a notional form of free that includes your CFO paying through the nose without realizing it.

The office up strategy is really good for MS. I've always wondered why they haven't made more of Exchange as a data platform given that they have a near corporate monopoly on that and there is vast latent value in the data that is in it.

Or maybe that's why!




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