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.

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So does the FDIC

[TykeClone]

http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2004/FIL11 404a.html

Re:maybe the TCO is lower

[julesh]

Users are limited to 16 groups??

32, I believe. Still, it isn't perfect, and we should perhaps look at ways to improve it.

Only one group can have permissions applied to a file?

Not true. All major Linux filesystems support POSIX ACLs now, enabling you to apply whatever permissions you like.

And no group nesting allowed?

What are the security benefits of allowing this? Personally, I am not aware of any, as I believe whether it is allowed or not the systems are actually equivalent -- it is merely an implementation detail that should be ironed out by any reasonably well written management system.

You can mod this comment down, but you can't propose a security system like THAT to a company interested in protecting their assets. WAKE UP SLASHDOT.

Even without ACLs, it is more than adequate for 99% of companies. Hell, most of them wouldn't want to spend the admin time required to manage anything more complex.

Re:From Linux to Windows

[f()rK()_Bomb]

I would second this as i worked in a pure 2000 domain but if you actually think about uptime exactly how often do win2k servers reboot? We were generally rebooting the things every couple of weeks due to patches. Leave one up for more than 60 days and things start to get wierd. For instance our DCHP server decided to stop giving out addresses. Reboot and it was fine. I would definately consider this as unstable.