The New York Times > Technology > A Front-Runner at Microsoft, but There's No Race Yet

The New York Times > Technology > A Front-Runner at Microsoft, but There's No Race Yet: "Mr. Rudder's group has grown at 15 percent to 20 percent annually for the last few years, reaching $10 billion a year in sales. It has become Microsoft's third big business by expanding at roughly twice the pace of the more mature desktop divisions, the Windows operating system and the Office software package. Microsoft's server group has posted faster growth than the software businesses of big corporate rivals like I.B.M. and Oracle, and has not suffered much so far from Linux, the popular free operating system. "