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Linux During The .Com Crash
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..."
"It seems to me it would make it more appealing to .coms to use the free software but..."
You forget how many big hardware/software companies were FUNDING the dotcoms. Microsoft, Netscape/AOL, Sun, Novell, Oracle, and plenty of other companies with reason to push commercial software were giving the dotcoms quite a lot of their startup capital, much of the capital often came on the agreement to use/promote/develop a capital provider's product(s). Using Free/Open-Source software was seen as ingrateful by much of the industry, and for many of the dotcoms software costs were just a tiny part of their overall insane operating costs.
I'm not familiar with the crash-report feature, but knowing Microsoft support (and I've talked to them several times at ~$300 per incident) any non-MS app involved will be blamed.
While the Linux community does not seem concerned with money
Personally, I think that's one of the main reasons Linux is doing so well. There are no stockholders pusing for a new release so they can charge $100+ for an upgrade. Instead, code is released when its READY to be released, instead of finding out about HUGE security holes in its most secure version of Windows ever
Linux is directly dependent on the failures/success of Microsoft
Care to back that up with anything at all?
You might get better service from Microsoft, but I never have. I've asked the open source community for help with several problems over the years by posting to various newsgroups or forums, and always gotten detailed helpful information. When we had a problem with an NT4 server crashing, they asked me to resize the pagefile, which didn't change anything. That was their only advice.
Microsoft has never released any software that is as unusable as Linux
Go try Microsoft BOB, or the first version of MS FrontPage. The new installs of RedHat (the distro I use) is far simpler than either of the above mentioned products.
Linux is not yet ready to compete with Windows
Linux IS competing with windows. Check out web server statistics, or the infamous Halloween Papers. If Linux was not competeing, Microsoft wouldn't be worried about it.
Nobody can predict whether it[Linux] will be ready in six months or five years
Yet you can say that Linux will not survive. I can't follow that logic.
I would describe the Linux community as naive, unrealistic, and disorganized. So far they have been giving us inferior service and inferior software
And that's fair, you can describe it any way you like, but the fact remains that Linux is still growing faster in the server market that MS is. Who knows if that trend will continue.
Because we know the bias up front, and can account for it in making decisions. Just try to get any news organization that they are biased in one direction or another. They will claim impartiality. At least on /., I know the bias first.
Well you can extrapolate that out and say "Why don't we all just buy our own work PCs so we can have something really fast". Personally I think $800 for a chair (which contributes to a feeling of wellness, which contributes to productivity) is not a big deal when the person sitting in it is likely making about 100x that in a year (and the chair will last for at least several years). It just seems absurd to me that everyone uses Aerons as a demonstration of .COM excesses when it seems like a pretty small piece of the pie for something that can have a considerable impact on performance. It's odd that so many developers get jealous and we infight and cannibalize our own ranks, spiting .COM workers with game rooms or Aerons when such things are so TRIVIAL and IRRELEVANTLY INEXPENSIVE in the grand scope of a corporation. Hell the lawyer who proofreads the PR statements costs many magnitudes more than all of that combined for many organizations.