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Latest Ballmergram Bashes Linux TCO
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.
We're tired of hearing your useless FUD.
1. Price of Windows $299
2. Price of Linux $0 to whatever distributor you wish to pay
3. Having the Freedom to use the software you want to how you want to and being a part of a world wide Free(dom) software community: Priceless!
w0uhf
I don't. It'd be much more expensive IMO to convert from Linux to Windows. First off, you gotta buy it. Second off, you'd have to hire all new IT staff, because the previous guys would've committed hari-kari in the bathroom. Second, you'd have to figure out how to get all of your applications running again in an environment that is as stable as a drunkard on a fence.
-Jesse
Nothing says "unprofessional job" like wrinkles in your duct tape.
Who here also thinks it'd be just as expensive to convert from Linux to Windows?
/.ers' hands shoot up, then returns as they come back down.)
(Entire planet moves a fraction of an inch further away from the sun as millions of
The difference between spam and poop is that you don't have to dig through septic tanks looking for real food. -- Me
how ironic.
^_^
"You worthless post!"
-Shakespeare, 2 Gentlemen of Verona, 1. 1. 147
Security
About three years ago, we made software security a top priority
s/three years ago/ten years too late/
Developers, devel... erk, Security, Security, Security!
Do you like Japanese imports?
my SysVol is marked as tombstoned
If your lucky maybe some of that BSD code in windows will save you, since BSD is always dying but never really dies.
I THINK NOT!
As a completely unrelated aside, my mp3 player chose this moment to start playing "Everything You Know Is Wrong" by Chumbawamba, which has, as part of the bridge, the title and some guy saying "Misinformation!" in the background. I find this highly appropriate.
Breaking Into the Industry - A development log about starting a game studio.
you gotta learn how to count
Aww, comeon. LeChuck's just misunderstood. You try walking around with your beard on fire and see if you don't get a little grumpy.
-Peter
Getting Linux TCO news from Ballmer is about as reliable as getting news about Iraq from Dick Cheney.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
Pope takes a shit in the woods.
_O_
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Since no one sane replies to a MAKE MONEY FAST email, which is what his message is, the only entertainment to be gained from the replies will be of the rather sick kind people get from watching cripples fall dosn stairs.
Mind you, I'm pretty sick myself when it comes to humour...
_O_
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Presumably they replaced old servers with new ones, so, say, 4 old i386s with 2 new Athlons ? Hardly surprising it is ?
Any one got any old pics of Ballmer, I'd like to see how much his nose has grown by this last year.
Rich is nice, but the part I'm really looking forward to in not being held accountable for my fuck-ups!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Whereas the frequency of Linux viruses on Windows is much higher?
I think Steve Ballmer's a giant douche ...
Naaaah. He's a turd sandwich.
If all the septics* raised there hands towards the sun wouldn't that push the earth away from it for a moment?
(septic tank = yank, a charming bit of rhyming slang)
Cookie, the reason 95% of computers run windows is because billy bathgates is a gangster.
Ballmer - And as Yankee Group noted in its Linux, UNIX and Windows TCO Comparison study, "Linux-specific worms and viruses are every bit as pernicious as their UNIX and Windows counterparts - and in many cases they are much more stealthy."
Spin, Spin, Spin! Just more proof that you can take anything out of context... or just outright lie.
Almost all of the annoying spyware/adware software out there will only infect a Microsoft platform. You've immediately just reduced your maintenance headaches in typical organizations by over 50%.
Let's look at some information actually based on analysis of CERT data...
Windows v Linux security: the real factsp ort_windows_vs_linux/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_re
If you prefer, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/security_r eport_windows_vs_linux.pdf
- Have you ever noticed that the more you learn about technology, the more stupid you sound trying to explain it?