Any Reason To Buy Microsoft?

zymano writes "This yahoo article says that almost everything enterprises once found unique to Microsoft they can now find somewhere else -- without some of the baggage that comes with Microsoft purchases, like ongoing security concerns and mystifying licensing practices and that in a recent survey of CIOs, Forrester Research found that about 25 percent of them were already in the process of replacing Windows servers with Linux."

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Re:67.123% of statictics are made up on the spot

[rat7307]

Mmmmmmm, Slanty

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glibc

[mkro]

It's not just a glib overgeneralisation to say that it helps admin, and from what I've seen of OSX server it has much the same advantages.

I'm sorry for going off topic here, but could anyone give an URL to a page summarizing the whole glibc issue? Neither Google or the glibc webpage/faq provides easily understandable information on it. IMHO, a quick guide to what to do to avoid it, how to fix it if it happens, etc. could help a lot of people.

You really offer only one reason.

[twitter]

The only thing I see above is a knowledge of how to get things done under Microsoft. It seems to have blinded you to better tools available at no cost as free software. Yeah, yeah, it takes time to learn how to use those tools, but nothing takes more time to stay on top of than Microsoft. In the free software world, you learn it once and don't have to worry about the rug getting pulled out from under you in the upgrade train.

An easy way to run a large Debian network would be to make your own mirror with meta packages. All your desktops and servers can point to the appropriate mirror to get the updates they need through chronned apt-get update and upgrade. There are other ways to do things, of course but none so woefully inefficent as to take 20 staff hours.

SMS, by the way sucks. Everytime the company upgrades, it breaks user shortcuts. Why? I'm not really sure, but it has something to do with deep seated flaws in the Microsoft platform that require version numbers or other unique names for SMS applications. The user experience is not smooth at all. I doubt the admistrative side is really much fun either. If inventory management was a breeze, thrid party software to do the same would not exist and Microsoft themselves would not have been hit by the SQL Slammer worm.

The tools are there in the free software world. Free your mind from that M$ junk and have a look. You will like what you see.