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Re: City of Zaragoza Abandons Windows, Switches to Linux

__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 27 February 2007 02:55 \__

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS
> <nospam@xxxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:17:33 -0500
> <QtMEh.26240$B8.22560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> raylopez99 wrote:
>>
>>> I want to
>>> hear about a region that adopts Linux having a GDP of 400 billion $ or
>>> more, which the California Bay area has or even most big cities in the
>>> US, which far exceeds most country GDPs.


I had plonked you before (you played /ad hominen/, IIRC) , but now I can
smell your fear. It doesn't smell so nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaragoza

"According to 2006 data from the Zaragoza council, the population of the city
of Zaragoza was 660.895, ranking fifth in Spain. The population of the
metropolitan area was estimated in 2006 at 833.455 inhabitants."

You also stated that you are/were a Microsoft investor, so I assume your
opinions reflect on those whose money is ties to this 'whale on shore'.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21109542%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

        "Microsoft profit on slide"


>> You may be waiting quite a while... say your entire life.
>>
>> The city of Largo, FL put 2 Linux servers in place, and cola lit up like a
>> Christmas tree for years.  They were so proud Linux was used in a 70's-era
>> thin-client infrastructure.
>>
>> http://www.newsforge.com/business/02/12/04/2346215.shtml?tid=19


Don't go back as far as 2004. The same network covered a similar story last
week... about 240 store branches going Linux. How come you don't mention it?
And it's one of those cases where the switcher does not keep quiet about the
migration (most of them do, for a plethora of reason which we mentioned
before).


> Well, yeah, of course.  Vista is the future!  Transparent
> and semitransparent windows, every desktop and window
> thereof capable of doing rolodex thingies for finding
> contacts, restaurants, calendar entries, and such while
> simultaneously playing synthopop music in the background!
> 
> Yeah, gotta love that ultramodern $300/workstation
> capability.  (And that's *before* one purchases Vista,
> which requires about 2 GB RAM to run well.  But memory's
> cheap; just equip every Windows user -- about 300 million
> or so of them, as a wild-assed guess (if anyone has better
> numbers let me know) -- with $300 worth of RAM (total cost:
> $90B) and we'll be all set, right?


Aye. Why build a house when you can move into an apartment in Disneyland? The
latter is more fun, isn't it? And you've got some 'funny money' to spare,
no? *wink*

I guess my current sig (Linux videos) fits very well in this context. Have a
look. It's clicky!!

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