__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Sunday 11 February 2007 17:48 \__
> Microsoft is providing another option to customers that would like to
> eliminate the cost of Linux administration?set-up, optimization and
> maintenance?which should spur interest in HPC further.?
>
> Specifically, Herold points out that he has been able to install his
> company?s seismic processing software in one hour on a Windows-based
> cluster as compared to what is usually a two- to three-day job in a Linux
> environment.
>
> ?I?ve done dozens of Windows installations, in fact, that came up in only
> ten minutes,? he explains,
>
> ?whereas, I did a Linux installation in Moscow recently that took five days
> because of all of the customization required in that environment. With
> Windows, you drop it in place and it runs. Standardization pays off.?
>
> https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/supercomputing/docs/HPCWP.doc
Microsoft Exec Wanted To Mask Linux Report Sponsorship, E-mails Reveal
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| And the month before, Houston wrote Johnson a message that intimated
| pressure had been put on IDC to tweak the report so it would put
| Microsoft in a better light. "I hate to put it like this, but at
| this point, IDC is done negotiating with us. We have moved them
| quite a bit already, but they are now holding the line, saying
| that if we want the names of their 'big' analysts on the report,
| this is it."
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| Although Microsoft's Web site still hosts a Dec. 17, 2002 press
| release extolling the TCO survey, the study itself has been
| removed.
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