Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 28 February 2008 17:28 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Windows Server 2008 catching up with Linux
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Windows Server 2008 will never be Linux. And it's not likely to woo Linux
>>>| users away from open source anytime soon.
>>>|
>>>| [...]
>>>|
>>>| "There's an anti-Microsoft bias in Unixland," Gillen said. "The more
>>>| Microsoft continues to erase objections [with features like PowerShell and
>>>| Server Core], the harder it is to make the argument that Windows doesn't
>>>| meet their needs."
>>> `----
>>
>> Umm, how about this: "it's proprietary, locked-down, doesn't
>> interoperate well with anything else, not a proper multi-user system,
>> virtually impossible to administer remotely, needs frequent reboots from
>> which it might never recover, needs constant patching using patches
>> which frequently break the system, is amazingly insecure, has a very
>> high memory, CPU and storage footprint, requires multiple licences for
>> each product and each user... (etc.).
>
> searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com rarely makes this mistake of accepting
> invitations or contacting Microsoft's mouthpieces with an 'analyst' hat, so
> it's a tad surprising. There's this guy from California and Bernard Golden who
> they regularly quote, but IDC/Gartner (Partner) is a now low for them. These
> firms are known to be corrupted. Even CEOs say so.
>
Bernard's a good chap, I've done some presenting with him.
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