Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Sunday 17 September 2006 23:38 \__
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>> An extremely good, well balanced, and comprehensive article on Linux
>> deployment in business:
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>> | The days are over when Microsoft could rely on being the only
>> | software platform in town. John Dwyer reports
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>> | Microsoft has a case to answer. When Quocirca sifted through 8000 IT
>> | professionals' responses to an online questionnaire last year, the UK
>> | consultancy discovered deep unease with Microsoft's Windows operating
>> | system.
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> They have an operating system? Operating seems like an active work, not a
> passive one.
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>> | In some respondents Microsoft inspired a near-psychotic depth of
>> | loathing. Others merely recorded strong reservations about,
>> | respectively, the cost and performance penalties of Windows'
>> | insecurity, its squandering of hardware power, its instability and
>> | unreliability, and the cost of Microsoft's licences.
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> This reminds me of a message I've just read in a Web-related newsgroup. See
> the part about spending 20% of your time 'maintaining' the computer.
Only a complete idiot would spend 20% of his time "maintaining"
Windows. I used windows as a development platform for almost 8 years and
the most maintenance I ever did was the occasional (every 2 or 3 months)
defrag and the occasional manual virus scan.
When you see posts proclaiming the end of the world or that Linux is
installed on 80% of PCs, do you believe those too? No. Of course not.
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