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Story: Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable'
Posted by: Richard (Saturday 20 May 2006, 7:02 AM)
It sounds like a simple case of talking down the opponent. "Yes, that's nice - a bit like Grandma down the road baking cakes for the village fayre. You wouldn't want to do catering for your 1000 guest party on Grandma's cakes now would you".
My first impression was that the statements were hilarious. Windows dependable??? Must be having a laugh! I can't think of one place where I've seen Windows "just work" yet I've seen open source software just work.
Back on open source and open systems now and suddenly my life is far calmer. There are far fewer surprises like yet another timeout or an OleDb driver that bombs if you try to read the wrong number. Things work as expected, and there's no rush in Eclipse as there is in Visual Studio to finish debugging in 60 seconds before COM times out.
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Story: Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable'
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I switched to OSS a couple of years ago, and apart... David Wright -
It sounds like a simple case of talking down... Richard -
What do they use in the Super Computer e... RSE -
I agree with the statement that you have to choose... Jason Simmons
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DNS, SMTP, SNMP, TCP/IP, etc, etc.
All Open Source... Arthur B.
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More M$ misspeak, and the only ones who will belie... Oldator
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Well M$ can say what they want. Let the facts spea... midi-man
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Yep would agree with the above comments, of c... George Orwell
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