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An anonymous reader writes "Open source advocate Tony Stanco, of the George Washington University Cyberspace Policy Institute has been getting flamed for allowing Microsoft reps to speak at an Open Source in government conference he's putting on next month. Today, in a commentary on NewsForge, Tony responds to the flamers. He says, "Leave it to the kooks in the community to make Microsoft look sympathetic." Is he right? Should we be willing to listen to what Microsoft has to say? Aren't open minds important to open source?" Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.
No Microsoft is pure evil
SummaryThe Windows 2000 appliance solution offers OEMs industry-leading performance and scalability, high availability, and data protection. Appliances powered with Windows are also customized and pre-configured for a specific function such as file serving or Web content serving, allowing for fast and simple deployment. Therefore, these appliances based on Windows 2000 offer both OEMS and their customers superior value when compared with similar Linux-based solutions.
Specifically, Windows 2000 and the Microsoft Server Appliance Kit 2.0 provide a range of benefits for their customers. Benefits include:
=Faster time to market
=Ease of deployment and administration
=Interoperability across multiple network =operating systems
=Lower cost of ownership and development
=Clarity of intellectual property ownership
=Predictability of the development process
Troll 67 of 208 from the annals of the Troll Library .
Is PDF an "open" format? I've never seen a reader outside of acrobat. I believe it's a closed format, closed app, closed everything that just happens to have been ported to multiple platforms.
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