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USA Today says "Linux waddles from obscurity"
JCallery writes "The Money section of Monday's USA Today carried a feature article entitled "Linux waddles from obscurity to the big time Momentum builds as upstart operating system proves it can compute". It carries a discussion of time and monetary savings in business, basic Sun and Microsoft arguments against Linux, growing popularity with Wall Street, Hollywood, and government organizations, and the credibility of Linux due to alliances with other industry companies."
What a long way Tux has traveled in the 12 years since Linus Torvald
Torvald? You think USA today could manage to get the creator's name right? I've never seen an article misspelling Gattes, Balmy, and Ilison. Other than that, you couldn't ask for a better PR article for Linux.
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Nothing like paying good money to read newspaper reporters restate the painfully obvious.
"Breaking news: Some Americans now driving to work in lieu of walking!"
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Seems to me the average USA Today reader doesn't have a clue what Linux is.
;-).
The average USA Today reader doesn't know that burgers are unhealthy, or that coffee is hot. They're AMERICAN.
It never ceases to amaze me how an 11-year-old implementation of a 30-year-old design is called an "upstart".
For the same reason that a structure based on a 2000 year old design, using 50 year old construction techniques, materials developed anywhere from 10,000 years ago to 20 years ago, and architectural designs that are ten years old, is still called a "new building" when it is built.
For that matter, the hardware all our operating systems run on is based on a 70 year old material sciences, a basic transister design that is 60 years old, and semi-conductor technology that is at least 40 years old.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
Same story, two years later:
The Germany-based bank sought a less-costly way to calculate risks associated with its portfolio of investments. So it replaced 40 Pentium II computer servers, based on the Linux operating systems, at an average cost of $50 each, with 50 Windows.Net servers based on Intel Xeon VI processors, at $50,000 each.
The Linux servers took 11 minutes to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Windows.Net servers made the same calculation only in 3 minutes (not including several reboots time)
With a better and more frequent handle on its finances, the bank could shift tens of millions of dollars from its reserve account to active investments of MSFT
"Linux waddles from obscurity"
In other news, BeOS left a sharp stinging pain.
FreeBSD claimed the souls of the damned. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Sun shined brightly. Mario was unsurprised.
Windows has been shattered.
Unix has been castrated.
Are we sure they weren't just hacked again and the hackers put up a Linux story this time?
You might as well argue that sentences shouldn't begin with conjunctions.
And just what in the hell is that supposed to mean?
Without the pie charts, USA Today articles just can't stand on their own: Sun has derided Linux... as a "bathtub of code." With so many cooks, Linux is destined to splinter into incompatible versions, Sun says. What is with all the metaphors? Too many cooks splinter the bathtub? And that website is embarrassing - shouldn't they at least put a date on the article? I especially like that last statement "Linux is first on the horizon," Wicker says.Cover storyCover story - is that some sort of superliminal thing?
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