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Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft
mr.big_pig writes "The Seattle PI had a front page article analyzing the Microsoft's Get The Facts website and related ads compairing Windows to Linux. The short and sweet: follow the money and see just how 'independent' is this research. What caught my eye was that this was on the front page and not buried in the business section."
In other news, recent market studies have a massive decline in the demand for porn on the Internet, and...
Is it possible to mod Stories as redundant?
Sat here watching my karma go wheeeeeee all the way down ;)
I agree, although it's often more simple than that. I converted a client to Mozilla Firebird, which they used for a while without incident. Eventually they admitted they'd gone back to IE. Why? Because they preferred the look of the IE icon.
This is what we're dealing with out there.
Yep, J2EE is ridiculously expensive. I mean, just check out these figures...
JBoss Appserver - Cost: $0.00
IBM 1.4 JDK for Linux x86 - Cost: $0.00
Eclipse IDE - Cost: $0.00
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
Did they miss out the 000,000 somewhere?
Since Microsoft is paying for the stuff SCO is smoking, I would say yes..
Quip from article: In that way, the research fills a critical gap, he said. Companies "couldn't say, 'Maybe I should just choose Linux because there were 52 Slashdot postings saying that Linux is better,' " he said, referring to a popular Web site for technology news and commentary.
Of course, Slashdot also has as many posts about goatse...which kinda puts it all in perspective. lol
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
"I think this part of the article is significant:
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One problem, he said, is that companies will tend to keep under wraps the results of commissioned studies that turn out unfavorably."
Lemme guess, the rest of the article was unfavourable, so you kept it under wraps?
can't get the word of mouth advertising that money can't buy....
Wish I could remember the link, but IIRC one of the cell phone manufacturers, Ericsson, I think, had some advertising campaign where to promote their new line of cell phones with interactive games they deployed pairs of good-looking women in bars using the phones to play games. You can see where male bar patrons would suddenly become interested in being able to play games on the new phones.
I have to say, though, that the tactic might have to be modified in Microsoft's case.
I'd have a real weird feeling if I met some good-looking girl in bar using her laptop and extolling how well MSDN supported Visual Something. "My mother warned me about girls like you..."
"Provided by the management for your protection."
I really don't understand why this is news. Are people really that naive?
Yes. And here is the proof. Obviously you are that naive, in a different way, in order to ask such a question. No offense intended. There are niave PHB's, and there are bosses with flat hair. For the niave ones it takes an article to point out the obvious to them. Show them the article and they will realize "Oh, I see that now." just as quickly as they would believe any Microsoft funded study or SCO PR shoved in front of their face.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.