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"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."

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  1. Err... by cperciva · · Score: 5, Informative

    Despite this, two-thirds of all webservers run Linux.

    No. Two-thirds of all publicly visible web servers found by netcraft run Apache, but this includes many other operating systems.

  2. Slashdot a handy tool for FUD group? by lheal · · Score: 5, Informative

    This same group came out with the story '"Mid-Sized Companies Not Interested in Linux - Microsoft Still Dominates, Study Says" - April 5, 2005'.

    It looks like the same "study".

    Thanks, Slashdot, for giving the lame "study" more legs and contributing to Linux FUD.

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