Two years ago, Microsoft (MSFT) stunned the world by forming a partnership with Novell (NOVL), a company specializing in the open-source Linux operating system that competes with Windows.

两年前，微软与专注于开源Linux操作系统的Novell建立了合作关系。 这一举措震惊了业界，因为Linux一直处于和Windows竞争的地位。

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It USES a more labour-intensive production system than the Japanese firms it competes with to take advantage of low Labour costs.

BYD采用一种比竞争对手日本公司更甚的劳动密集型生产体系取得低劳动成本优势。

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This forum could be similar to the one used to create the operating system, Linux, which competes with Microsoft’s near monopoly.

这个论坛可以与用于创建操作系统即Linux的论坛相似，Linux与微软的几乎垄断相竞争。

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The antitrust concern apparently surrounds the conditions of Microsoft's Corel investment, and whether or not Microsoft bullied Corel to drop its Linux-based applications, because the Linux operating system competes with Microsoft's Windows operating system.

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More importantly, Microsoft and Sun have a new common enemy: Linux, an operating system that competes with Windows and with Sun's Solaris but which, unlike the other two, is written by volunteers and shared freely among all who want to download and use it.

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Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.

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