Linux During The .Com Crash

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Posted by Hemos on Thursday January 3, 2002 @05:13AM from the following-the-path dept.

freakboy303 writes "ZDNet has a short article that can be found here , It basically talks about what the last couple of year of gloom and doom mean for the linux world in general. It seems to me it would make it more appealing to .coms to use the free software but..."

7 of 243 comments (clear)

Re:I thought that... by Pinball+Wizard · 2002-01-03 05:24 · Score: 5, Funny

ZDNet was owned by M$ anyway. That would give them some bias.

That's why we come to Slashdot, because we know they're not biased!

--
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
Pop quiz, hotshot... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-03 05:25 · Score: 1, Funny

You can buy Windows server licenses and cheap, back-breaking chairs, or use Linux and get Herman Miller Aerons. What do you do?

It's a real conundrum, because you'd want your tech people to have comfortable chairs while stuck at the office for hours downloading and applying Windows service packs and updating virus definitions or repairing virus/worm damage.

Kind of like how office politics works-- the people who are never in the office have the largest offices (with windows!) and the fastest computer.
.com answer by sulli · 2002-01-03 05:34 · Score: 2, Funny

Buy the most expensive chairs and server hardware and licenses. Why not, money's cheap, right?
(A .com in my building "moved out" just before Xmas - 100s of Herman Millers went into the rent-a-truck. Glad I wasn't an investor.)

--

sulli
RTFJ.
Re:I thought that... by cscx · 2002-01-03 05:34 · Score: 1, Funny

That's why we come to Slashdot, because we know they're not biased!
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. Thank you.
In other news by Erris · 2002-01-03 05:55 · Score: 3, Funny

a recent Goldman Sachs survey found that mainframes, Linux servers and supply-chain management ranked as the three lowest spending priorities for executives in Fortune 1000 companies. About 65 percent of executives polled by Goldman Sachs said they have no plans to use Linux at their company next year.
In other news, 75% of Fortune 1000 executives polled claimed to have turned a computer on last year. Many thought that MS was a subsidiary of IBM that made new and improved typewriters and file cabinets. "Servers?", said one darting accross a hel-o-pad, "We've got the best stinking servers in the business. I have three personal assistants, two drivers, a pilot, as well as the usual secretarial compliment. We don't need anything from this Linux company we keep hearing about. Now go away, you bother me.!" Most found the concept of email good and had their assistants print duplicates for them and their files.

--
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Re:Windows most popular web server OS? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-03 05:59 · Score: 1, Funny

Yes, sadly Windows IIS web servers are more popular and even my apache access_log file proves it. Look at all those entries for root.exe, system32.exe, etc... All files my poor linux system does not have. The writing is on the wall. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Linux is dead.

Viruses spread better than well designed systems.
how is .com and linux so closely linked? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-03 05:59 · Score: 1, Funny

sounds like an editor said 'hey we need a dot com crash and linux filler article'.

Can't they just use the almanic of stock news journalism to recycle an article appropriate for this time of year?