"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Yankee Group PR's Roller Coaster Ride
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> | Yankee Group public relations boarded a roller coaster last week.On
> | the upside, their PR agency of record won an award -- for
> facilitating
> | 1,400 mentions of Yankee and/or its analysts in the business press.
> On
> | the downside, Yankee issued a press release on operating system
> | reliability that was sure to fan flames among its Linux detractors.
> | Imagine their glee -- the detractors' glee, that is -- on
> discovering
> | factual errors in the release.
> `----
>
> http://oped.tekrati.com/OpinionEditorialDetail.asp?Newsid=7234
A stupid quibble that just shows the hysteric mind set of the linux
fans! The article said "20% less downtime" and also said "20% greater
uptime" while clearly defining the absolute time spans involved. The
failure of a PR flack to appreciate the subtleties of ratios and
fractions is hardly such a cause for alarm. A simple misstatement is
all it was and the gist of the test, showing Windows slightly better in
the stability department than linux is not lost by all the blather from
the fans, dismayed at the loss in the big league competition.
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