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Energy Company Refutes Windows TCO Claims
apt-get writes "Computerworld Australia has a gem of a case study on Country Energy with comments from an IT manager that shoot down Microsoft's 'objective' Windows TCO claims. My favourite; 'we get to see both sides and Windows is not cheaper at all'. Interestingly, in almost every area of its critical IT infrastructure, open source and commercial software work in peace together. The IT manager even says not having MS Office on Linux is a hindrance to its desktop take up."
because people are lazy shits or they would have gotten a real job building things instead of siting on their ass typing shit all day long. the vb macros are already written. they don't want to make them again.
that said, i don;t know anyone who uses them. i certainly don't. i don't use macros for anything, except in C and in cofig files. and I don't programme anymore, just run my website and look for work. therefor i do not use macros at all. textedit does what i need for day-to-day stuff. appleworks is fine when i need to make a large sort of document, not that i am writing papers anymore.
those who would trade essential platform independence for a little temporary performance increase deserve neither platform independence nor performance increase.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
Typical human reaction, bow to the abyss of the infinite whenever something comes along your way that you don't agree with, find 'right', or have an alternative use for
The point is not whether or not there are alternative arguments, the point is that an Energy Company (in whom one ought to have at least a modicum of respect, given the parameters of their environment) saying it, not some market-droid, not some 'independent' research firm, not some half-assed marketdroid with a room full of monkeys.
You 'refuting' this 'refutation' with the 'statement' that this 'refutation' can be 'refuted' an 'infinite number of ways' says more about your ideals than it does about this article, actually
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Sun's VM runs it much slower on the clients.
Have you checked that recently? We were startled at the speedup of the latest 1.4 release (1.4.03, if I remember rightly).
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