Anyone seen this?

[Genesis]

Haha, I just saw this today. (It's a GIF, so it should change every once and a while.)



There's this too: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/facts/default.asp.

[Tony]

how would they even determine is the webserver is owned by terrorists or not?

and that microsoft page is a joke

Forrester
Detailed Financials Show Total Linux Costs Higher Than Windows Costs by 5 to 20 Percent - based on an analysis of 5 companies, a chunk of which went into retraining staff (they just assume noone needs training with windows) and the possibility of needing to purchase 3rd party utility programs

Yankee Group
Large Enterprises: Switching from Windows to Linux "Prohibitively Expensive, Extremely Complex, Provides No Tangible Business Gains" - costs of switch. Void if you're starting off with Linux in first place Article also places emphesis on the purchase of 3rd party utilities

BearingPoint
Licensing and Support Acquisition Costs Comparable for Windows Server, SUSE Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux - "Windows Server 2003 was found to be less than one or both of the commercial Linux offerings in several cases" Does anyone else find that sentance funny?

Windows Users Have Fewer Vulnerabilities - "On average, Microsoft had a fix available 25 days after a security issue was publicly disclosed" Not something to be proud off... seeing as they try to keep all the flows out of the media (they have enough as it is). Actually when was the last time you've heard about a Linux vulnarability on the news?

Windows Server 2003 Outperforms Linux for File Serving - "Windows Server 2003 outperformed Samba 3.0" great! pick on some app you found that can run on linux
"Up to 59% better peak performance " - ok... how about an average?

Equifax Sees 14 Percent Cost Savings - the only article with no summary... why? there's nothing to summazine under the "14% cost savings" they talk about Visual C++ suit for their app development

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So there you have it... Microsoft is full of shit. You can make articles look like anything when you start taking quotes out of context

[Genesis]

Haha, perhaps Microsoft surveyed some terrorists for their info.

And yep, that's Microsoft for yah. Trying to convince people that their software is cheaper than free software.

It's interesting that if you actually read the documents, Microsoft forgot to include such quotes as "Linux, and other open source software can provide big benefits to the organization". Funny they didn't mention that in the summaries.

[Martin]

It is pretty funny. It's like.

Windows better at everything than linux: In a recent test, we discovered that linux doesn't actually work, and that with linux installed, your computer won't even turn on! Note that the test was performed on an unplugged linux box.

[Martin]

Although I do have to agree that windows does have a lower Total Cost of 0wnership. Here's the documentation to support it.

[templest]

Darkness wrote:

It is pretty funny. It's like.

Windows better at everything than linux: In a recent test, we discovered that linux doesn't actually work, and that with linux installed, your computer won't even turn on! Note that the test was performed on an unplugged linux box.

for those too lazy to copy / paste into your address bar to see what it says.

[templest]

You got that from the article on slashdot, didn't you?

[Martin]

http://jill.jazzkeyboard.com/qarticles.html

[Dan]

That thing about windows being more sceuer is a joke, the linux update progame i have for suse gets things fixed with in houres of the hole being found not days.

Also poleop keep saying that linux costs more in the end but i have yet to see this, i have been using linux on at least one of my comps for a very long time now and have yet to spend a cent, unless u count the time i spent dling the ISO file but my isp dose not chaged by the bandwith nor by time. Also most linux distros come with alot of free software that whould uhsely be bougth when working with windows.

Edit:
Al Qaeda IT Perfsnales eh? i whonder what kind of eduaction u need to get that job. I have a fealing this add may be fake, but still funny :p

[Mazer]

Dan, I think they mean how time = money and all that. You may not have spent money on books, or the install CDs, but you had all this free time to spend learning Linux. Other's may not have that freedom: they need to know how to use it, and they need to know now. Windows is newb-friendly.
But let's not start another debate, eh?

[templest]

Mazer wrote:

Dan, I think they mean how time = money and all that. You may not have spent money on books, or the install CDs, but you had all this free time to spend learning Linux. Other's may not have that freedom: they need to know how to use it, and they need to know now. Windows is newb-friendly.
But let's not start another debate, eh?

At least someone agrees with me.

[Martin]

Dan, you should really read that tc0.pdf that I linked to. I think you'd actually appretiate it.

To quote the summary.

Quote:

Immunity's findings clearly show that the best platform for your
targets to be running is Microsoft Windows, allowing you unparalleled
value for their dollar. This result reinforces the fact that its important
to consider more than just licensing fees when your targets choose
their OS. Indeed, a variety of factors go into their choice, and over
time, Windows has demonstrated itself to be the top contender in the,
in both the server and the desktop space for Total Cost of 0wnership.

[templest]

0wnership is spelt with an "0" for a reason.

[Dan]

Darkness, i aucaltay did read some of that pdf and i still blive linux is better and cheaper in every way. Using suse it toke me less time to install and configer an os then with windows 98 or xp and it did not take me that much time to figer out how KDE works and the linux comands are almost the same as windows ones but there are more and i have been using alot of them on the webserver for along time any how.

As for how fast u can do stuff in linux vs windows, i find i can be far more prodcitve in an linux everment like KDE then windows and i do most of my progaming in linux b/c it is easyer and faster.

It may cost comanys more if they sundey chage to linux w/o warning but the same thing whould hapen if u whent from linux to windows. Also for home users i think it whould mean saving even more money using linux.

[Tony]

Darkness wrote:

Note that the test was performed on an unplugged linux box.

almost

The Register wrote:

The Meta study compared the cost of Linux, running on IBM's z900 mainframe, to a Windows Server 2003 image, running on 900 MHz Intel Xeon CPUs.

full article