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Vista: DOA in the Enterprise
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| The really bad news for Microsoft: the number of business PCs running Windows
| XP increased from 2007 to 2008—three times the increase in the percentage of
| PCs running Vista.
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| Perhaps worse: The majority of businesses waiting for Vista—meaning those
| running older Windows versions—migrated to XP instead. Microsoft had counted
| on Windows 2000 and older versions to go to Vista. The newest Windows saw
| some conversion, but XP got much more.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/vista_doa_in_the_enterprise.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/5by7m4
GNU/Linux is popular among home users, but this one shows that even enterprises
use it quite extensively. How long can the Big Lie go on?
OS Roundup: Looking Beyond Unix
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| This message heralded the start of collaborative work on what was to become
| the Linux kernel. Together with the fruits of the GNU project, it resulted in
| the GNU/Linux OS, which is usually referred to as Linux.
|
| So now there are several alternatives when it comes to OSes. There are closed
| source, proprietary OSes such as Microsoft's. There are free, open-source
| OSes, such as the many distributions of Linux. And there are open and
| proprietary Unix based-OSes, and other OSes as well.
|
| Fast forward 17 years and many of the differences (especially the cultural
| ones) between these software models have blurred:
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| Linux has been adopted in the enterprise, and big vendors like IBM, HP, Sun,
| Novell and Red Hat are forging business out of supplying it to customers
| (usually by selling support packages and additional software tools.)
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3759326
Recent:
Is Linux Getting the Shaft?
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| So I went and looked. Here is the description of the database used by the
| Market Share service that everyone seems to rely on:
|
|
| We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive
| on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from
| approximately 160 million visitors per month. The information published
| is an aggregate of the data from this network of hosted website
| statistics. The site unique visitor and referral information is
| summarized on a monthly basis.
|
| WTF?
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| Is this supposed to be some kind of unbiased sample? But wait, there's
| more...
|
| [...]
|
| The complexity of this problem is actually rather large. But I can tell you
| one thing: If you were my graduate student and you came to me with this
| sampling strategy, I'd send you back to kindergarten. (If I had that power.)
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http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/07/is_linux_getting_the_shaft.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
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