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Latest Ballmergram Bashes Linux TCO

Posted by michael on from the starting-to-sweat dept.

Phoe6 writes "Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has used the software giant's latest executive email to stoke up Microsoft's fight against the rise of Linux. The 2,600 word missive was titled 'Customer focus: comparing Windows with Linux and UNIX'. In it, Ballmer repeated the key themes of Microsoft's controversial Get The Facts campaign. Zdnet has its report here." Linuxworld also has a story.

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  1. That costly UNIX.... by gtrubetskoy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    One of the hot topics among enterprise IT and business decision makers today is the costs and benefits of migrating enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) from costly, proprietary UNIX environments to Windows or other platforms.

    My Linux and Freebsd machines are particularly costly, I should consider migrating probably... On a second thought, I don't have any ERP (in fact I don't even know what it is).

  2. Re:Owooooooo!!!! by Greyfox · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think Steve Ballmer's a giant douche and whenever he opens his mouth shit spews forth like that girl in Poltergeist. I'm pretty sure he and Donald Rumsfield are twins, separated at birth. They should lock them both up at the same secret facility we're holding Noriega at (Anyone remember Noreiga?) so that they no longer pose a danger of embarassment to their respective administrations.

    --

    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

  3. Re:read the words by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Balmey wouldn't have meant it that way, would he?

    Maybe he went to the Michael Moore School of Making Misleading Statements.