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Article: If you can't beat 'em, integrate: Microsoft invests in Lindon's Vintela.(tech knowledge)
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- Utah Business
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- February 1, 2005
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MICROSOFT'S ANNUAL COPENHAGEN IT FORUM is a big event for the IT community, attracting thousands of paying tech professionals every year to network with one another and to learn what's new and what to expect from the world of Windows. The morning after the event kicked off in November 2004, the U.K.'s Techworld summed up Bill Gates' keynote address with a characteristic European headline: "Microsoft, Dell and Vintela aim to eat IBM's Lunch."
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The folks from Lindon-based Vintela ate it up.
"It was exciting, what can I say," says Vintela president Dave Wilson, who witnessed Gates' speech firsthand. "We had an expectation set ...