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A Decade of Linux on the IBM Mainframe, Now Show Me The Money
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| Despite struggling through Q2 of 2010 with a
| US$12m drop in net income on the same period
| last year, Novell continues to plough
| optimistically forward into the mainframe
| market with its support for the IBM System z
| Series.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2010/06/a-decade-of-linux-on-the-ibm-mainframe-now-show-me-the-money.html
Public Flogging of Preston Gralla
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| He made the mistake of echoing IDCs market-
| share factoids for operating systems on
| servers. Unfortunately for him readers were
| aware that many servers are obtained without
| an OS and cloned by the thousands with
| GNU/Linux. Read the comments. It goes on for
| pages.
|
| IDC does mention units with each OS but
| conveniently neglects re-purposing or naked
| serversâ Oops. 91% of the Top500 HPC systems
| and Google come to mind. That other OS may be
| useful on a server for running the difficult-
| to-manage OS on clients but compensating for
| inadequacy by adding more inadequacy is not
| merit.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/06/06/public-flogging-of-preston-gralla/
Recent:
Preston Gralla: Why you Shouldnât Care
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| In this weeks (May 18th, 2009) Computerworld print editionâs opinion
| column âDesktop Linux: Why you Shoulnât Careâ Preston Gralla (who?) bashes
| Linux for no apparent reason other than to bash something he obviously knows
| nothing about. Iâve never heard of this guy before so I checked out the rest
| of his blog post, and to my surprise (note the sarcasm) yep he loves his
| Microsoft. Itâs fine to love your operating system of choice but itâs another
| thing to spread out right lies about the operating system you choose not to
| use.
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http://dthomasdigital.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/preston-gralla-why-you-shouldnt-care/
Careers In Linux Journalism-- No Knowledge Required!
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| My current favorite horrid example is Dana Blankenhorn's famous "someone
| please send a Linux laptop" column, written in July 2008:
|
| "I have written about, and been written to about, Linux laptops for some
| time. Now is a good time to take the plunge. So I am asking for a review
| unit. "
|
| How can one craft any sort of response other than WTF??! But let us not be
| hasty. The Internet is already full of hasty, kneejerk flamers and uninformed
| pontificators, and we do not want to be like them. Perhaps there is more to
| this story, so let us make use of the very secret weapon that nobody in tech
| journalism knows about: Google. I've been reading Mr. Blankenhorn's column
| for some years, and between my cluttered old memory and Google I do not find
| any indication that he had ever actually touched a Linux PC until September
| 2008:
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| "My first Linux laptop is the ASUS EeePC."
|
| Be still my heart.
|
| Preston Gralla, famous Windows author, wrote a good article about his first
| serious Linux experience Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows. But
| again, WTF??! Another technology writer who has been writing about Linux for
| years without knowing anything about it:
|
| "Now, I recognize that a few hours of using desktop Linux isnât a true
| test drive. But if you want someone to throw over their habits of a more
| than a dozen years, youâve got to wow them right away. And Linux didnât
| do that for me."
|
| Like, heavy, man. This doesn't even rise to piffle-- it's piffle lite.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/01/careers-in-pund.html
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