Story: Microsoft touts Linux 'facts'
Posted by: Robb (Monday 22 August 2005, 5:09 PM)
They cannot be serious man!
I have been a Microsoft engineer (MCSE NT4/2000 + a few other MCPs) for over 12 years. I know this o/s inside out and that includes Win2K3. I teach and practoce the technologies. I have been running Linux (SuSE) for a few years in quite mission critical environments. I can see no basis in fact which supports the Microsoft thesis that Windows is 'cheaper' to run than Linux. It just is not true.
Windows provides the 'comfort-zone' environment that keeps millions of users happy everyday. The Windows server systems have their place. But if you want to run seriously large, critical networks, then yuo have no choice but to use Linux as your backend.
That's my story, and I am sticking to it.
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Story: Microsoft touts Linux 'facts'
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Wintel versus Mainframe?
Of course it'll cost less... Anonymous -
Oracle $80,000 Linux system. See Groklaw for detai... J Davies
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Microsoft is so pathetic, that it resorts to sprea... Anonymous
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MS lower priced than free? my linux OS is updated/... dean f owensby
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Cheaper? That's funny, I work on a computer I got... Anonymous
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Linux as an operating system has:
1. Greater stabi... DK Verma
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Linkus is free? Last I checked every enterprise b... Thomas Belajonas
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What a load of crap!! Anonymous
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They cannot be serious man!
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Microsoft techs... please don't get too angry... Zero One
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Lies, lies, it is just plain clear that Microsoft... Anon
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LOOK, LOOK, We found the way to cost LESS than our... Peter S
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