____/ Ignoramus2733 on Friday 24 August 2007 21:22 : \____
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:27:28 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ____/ Ogre on Friday 24 August 2007 20:02 : \____
>>
>>> John Bailo, Texeme.Construct wrote:
>>>> On Aug 24, 11:40 am, Ignoramus2733 <ignoramus2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The question is, should four wasted months count towards calculating
>>>>> total cost of ownership, or not?
>>>>
>>>> No, but you guys should get canned for making bad decisions.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's usually some pointy haired manager who makes these decisions. The
>>> techies will get the blame and the manager will get a bonus.
>>>
>>> And yes, the time spent trying to get the damn thing to work should be
>>> counted towards the total cost of ownership. The salary of all the
>>> people involved is part of the cost.
>>
>> ,----
>>| "(Microsoft manager:) I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
>>| on TCO on webservers. I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
>>| on availability (windows was down more than linux). And I don't like the
>>| fact that the reports says nothing new is coming with windows .net server."
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| "I don't like it to be public on the doc that we sponsored it because I
>>| don't think the outcome is as favorable as we had hoped. I just don't like
>>| competitors using it as ammo against us. It is easier if it doesn't mention
>>| that we sponsored it."
>> `----
>>
>> http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000/PX09695.pdf
>>
>
> I caught Microsoft lying about comparing Powershell with Unix process
> management (PS-ing and killing processes) vs. powershell.
>
> I am going to put together a webpage about it and submit it to Digg.
I saw that page in Digg, I think, just a couple of hours ago. Someone linked to
a microsoft.com page (PowerShell, IIRC) arguing that they are stealing *NIX
IP.
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