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I think you didn't insist enough on the fact that Microsoft Payed for those studies. I've personally read a lot of them and I can tel you that this SHOWS.
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I am not a Linux fanatic. I DO like Linux and I DO like to use it in my server room. But I have a dual boot at home and I wouldn't say that MS is useless or has a bad product.
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I WILL say though, that I couldn't help it, when I was reading their studies with all their graphs and explanations, I kept being reminded of way back when tons of studies sponsered by the tobacco industries were saying that smoking was not bad for you.
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I'm not saying that MS is as bad as smoking, but they sure as hell seem to be taking the same road to defend themselfs.
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I'm just a lonely sysadmin doing consulting work and it all looked like mostly blatent lies or extreme distortion of facts to me. I mean if we chose to ONLY select a limited number of undeniable facts and ignore everything else, we could also prove without a doubt that the earth is flat.
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But you know what? In the real world, it isn't flat. Just like in the real world, if I have a 200 user company that wants to have a simple mail and intranet server. I can either tell them to buy a new server with Echange and a bunch of licenses and some license tracking tools for a few thousand dollars. Or I can ask them if they have a semi old machine I could use to put it on for free. Then I can add spam control to the mix and really impress them so that next time they need something, they call me instead of that other guy who wanted to charge them 5000$ for the job.
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They also seem to be aiming at the BIG people because that's pretty much where the BIG money is. All those studies representing 500 or 5000 or even more employees. All those big servers with many processors crunching those big numbers and all.
They don't mean squat when you're dealing with smaller. I can tell you that more and more completely unoticed companies are moving their servers to Linux because that's where they can more easely save money. They are tired of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for stuff that's designed to do jobs 10 times bigger than what they need. They just want something that works. And when you tell them about Linux, they cringe a little from the fear MS dishes out, but when you show them that from the MS desktops end, they can't even tell the difference between a file on Linux or a file on an MS server...it all changes.
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And you know what's cool about small companies...
they grow. Sometimes they even become BIG. And by that time it'll be like the little girl says to the king of trolls at the end of Labyrinth..."MS, you have no power over me..."
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Just my two cents...from the trenches.
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I am not a Linux fanatic. I DO like Linux and I DO like to use it in my server room. But I have a dual boot at home and I wouldn't say that MS is useless or has a bad product.
.
I WILL say though, that I couldn't help it, when I was reading their studies with all their graphs and explanations, I kept being reminded of way back when tons of studies sponsered by the tobacco industries were saying that smoking was not bad for you.
.
I'm not saying that MS is as bad as smoking, but they sure as hell seem to be taking the same road to defend themselfs.
.
I'm just a lonely sysadmin doing consulting work and it all looked like mostly blatent lies or extreme distortion of facts to me. I mean if we chose to ONLY select a limited number of undeniable facts and ignore everything else, we could also prove without a doubt that the earth is flat.
.
But you know what? In the real world, it isn't flat. Just like in the real world, if I have a 200 user company that wants to have a simple mail and intranet server. I can either tell them to buy a new server with Echange and a bunch of licenses and some license tracking tools for a few thousand dollars. Or I can ask them if they have a semi old machine I could use to put it on for free. Then I can add spam control to the mix and really impress them so that next time they need something, they call me instead of that other guy who wanted to charge them 5000$ for the job.
.
They also seem to be aiming at the BIG people because that's pretty much where the BIG money is. All those studies representing 500 or 5000 or even more employees. All those big servers with many processors crunching those big numbers and all.
They don't mean squat when you're dealing with smaller. I can tell you that more and more completely unoticed companies are moving their servers to Linux because that's where they can more easely save money. They are tired of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for stuff that's designed to do jobs 10 times bigger than what they need. They just want something that works. And when you tell them about Linux, they cringe a little from the fear MS dishes out, but when you show them that from the MS desktops end, they can't even tell the difference between a file on Linux or a file on an MS server...it all changes.
.
And you know what's cool about small companies...
they grow. Sometimes they even become BIG. And by that time it'll be like the little girl says to the king of trolls at the end of Labyrinth..."MS, you have no power over me..."
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Just my two cents...from the trenches.
