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Story: Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux

Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 28 October 2004, 1:57 AM)

>"As organizations increasingly rely on IT to perform mission-critical functions, and with complexity a growing challenge, choosing the right computing platform for the long term can make the difference between profit and loss, and between future success and failure," wrote Ballmer.<

Mr Ballmer, I Couldn't agree more with that statement ! Especially when working with a collection of windows PC's running a mission-critical function for days on end. We unfortunatly took the windows route and after a week of processing and about 40% through the process a damn virus was automatically executed by one of your darn applications (explorer) which prompty took down the entire network of machines and lost all the work !.

The new system which is to go live in around 3 months is 100% Linux. Somehow I don't expect it to fall flat on it's face!!

So Mr Balmer people should look into choosing the correct computing platform when running mission critical processes !

Anonymous (Because I know how Mr Balmer likes to go into companies and convince management with cheaper licences etc...)