[ale] How the Other Half Lives

[Michael Barker]

On Monday 13 May 2002 11:00 am, Charles Shapiro wrote:
The "How Does Linux Compare?" page supports my philosophy
of why a company will not choose open source over MS.

The business leaders would rather invest in support contracts than
people.  People being the admins and developers that make the linux
implementation work.  Invest means either pay for contracts that can be
enforced in a court of law or build a raport with a talented (not neccesarily
experienced) individual.

My $.02 USD

-Michael

> Hmm. There's been a little movement on the Microsoft anti-Linux FUD
> pages.  At http://wehavethewayout.com there's now a link to "Learn how
> to migrate to windows" which goes to an area at Microsoft.com devoted to
> why and how you should migrate from Unix/Linux to Windows 2000. Sample
> arguments for this move include:
>
>    * Reliability (it's better than Windows NT (
> http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/advancedserver/evaluation/whyupgrade/d
>efault.asp ) ) * Performance (it's faster than Windows NT (
> http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/advancedserver/evaluation/whyupgrade/d
>efault.asp )) * Easier integration ("Linux lacks complete programmer
> toolkits . . ."
> http://www.microsoft.com/sbserver/evaluation/compare/linux.asp)
>
>
> I'ze just reporting the facts here.
>
> -- CHS
> (Linux zealot)
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