Most of these are insane. Ignore OSS, Apple, and Vitrual servers? I'm sorry but "it doesn't run quicken multi user mode" is not a reason for me to not buy anything Apple. Right now I'm using an open source browser, running on an open source operating system. The software that serves our webpages is open source, as is the MTA, email client, editor, IRC client, and instant messaging client. Virtual servers make sense now in a lot of cases.
Wow, this is worse than the start-up money saving tips. They're right about social-farceware though.
I posted it because while the comments made by BusinessWeek are self-contradictory and somewhat resigned to a fate of Microsoft-dominated software forever, they do give some insight into problems that startups could help solve, as seen from the standpoint of business users.