The Truth About Linux and Windows

petrus4 writes "Groklaw has an update on the Laura DiDio saga. Apparently, her complaints about "Linux extremists" notwithstanding, cooler heads than the usual suspects are asking questions about her research. A very interesting read, and one which will hopefully encourage corporate readers to regard the Yankee Group's findings with the requisite metric ton of salt in the future."

Comments

Linux extremist?

[crottsma]

Haha! The term "Linux-extremist" is redundant. The very definition of a "Linux-user" already contains the connotation of "extremist," inasmuch as all the users are zealous users and defenders of Linux. I have never met a lukewarm Linux user.

Apple

[fox9397]

This Windows Linux debate is actually excellent marketing from Apple computers :)

Re:Half of Users Already Know Windows Costs Too Mu

[DogDude]

No, I bill myself out at roughly $15/hour. I've done the math. And no, I've never successfully gotten ANY Linux install to work on ANY PC, so doing something like installing Apache is a moot point if I'm squinting at a monitor at 640x480 and 16 colors and I can't figure out how in the hell to fix it.

Re:Half of Users Already Know Windows Costs Too Mu

[Anonymous Coward]

Just to get a Linux box up and working would require hiring an outside consultant, which right there, adds a massive cost.

I'm sorry, there's no real way to ask this delicately. Are you a total muppet?

Installing a Linux box 10 years ago could be considered difficult, but getting a fully functional system up and running today is literally child's play.

If you really find it too difficult to install a box yourself, I'm sure you can find a teenager at the local elementary school who could help you out for a modest fee.

But seriously, if you can't get a standard click-the-next-button-a-few-times install CD to work then you either have some seriously non-standard/broken hardware, or you're a moron.

Re:I don't know why this is so deviceive.

[zoomba]

Ethics? BULLSHIT. It's called smart business practices. Why spend tons of money recreating the wheel? Not everyone has to subscribe to some selfless utopian view that simply isn't practical most of the time.

You're obviously an upstanding, proud member of the F/OSS world, posting as an AC and all.

Typical zealot, head shoved so far up your ass you'd need a dentist to get it out.

Personally

[Anonymous Coward]

I dont put any weight behind anything written by Laura DiDio or any analysts. I go by experience, and to be quite frank, I dont put any weight whatsoever behind anything Pamela Jones writes or the Groklaw site. I personally think Pamela Jones has a screw lose and half the crap she puts on her site, Groklaw, is propaganda and bullshit. I don't trust anything she has to say because she is a biased individual. I run Windows and Solaris in my datacenter, I have no interest in switching nor do I have any intentions of recommending a switch. What we use just works. I will continue to deploy Windows, I will upgrade to Windows and I have done my own studies and what Linux makes up in one area it falls short in another, so I see no benefit. Linux is a legal timebomb. Maybe SCO is full of shit, but what happens when the next person with a legitimate claim against Linux comes around, do you guys intend to fix it? Or do you plan to demonize the victim, the company whose IP was used illegally, or launch propaganda sites like you have done in the SCO case. Time will tell who is right and who is wrong, maybe its time for people to wake up and realize these arguments are a waste of time and get to work. Time is a precious resource and I plan to use it wisely, not go on a religous crusade. About Linux versus Windows, in my opinion Windows beats Linux, and there is no advocate, no journalist, no analyst and certainly no one from Slashdot who can change my mind.

Have a nice day

Re:Well since we are doing anecdotes

[kz45]

I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Putting Windows admins at work on Linux is an exercise in futility (or sick humor, depending)

hmm, so rather than giving some constructive criticism, you insult an admin who is trying to use linux.

and you wonder why most companies are still using windows.

you linux zealots are all the same...

Re:Survey finds Laura Didio to be SB

[Master of Transhuman]

"12.5% said she was a mindless whore."

Ah, but that was only 12.5% of those who had actually screwed her!

And there's overlap with the ones who called her a stupid bitch!

Your statistics are crap!