Novell Doubts Microsoft Latest "Linux Facts"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 22, 2005 @01:43AM from the oh-no-you-di'int dept.

Robert writes "Microsoft Corp's "Get the Facts" campaign comparing Windows with Linux continues to prove controversial, with Novell Inc describing the latest set of facts offered up by Microsoft as "misdirection." The latest report offered up by Microsoft as evidence that Windows is a better bet than Linux is a white paper from Security Innovation Inc that compares maintenance, patch application, and system failures related to a migration from Windows Server 2000 to 2003, and Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 to SLES 9. The report found that there were more system failures experienced by Linux systems administrators, and that more patches needed to be applied to the Linux systems, while more time was required to complete the Linux migration."

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Re:Dance with the devil and he'll steal your gold. by josh.loomis · 2005-11-22 01:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm sure the essteemed Mr. Gates prefers souls. They're crunchier.

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Re:Here are my facts... by at_slashdot · 2005-11-22 02:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Debian was far too heavy to pick up"

What exactly does that mean? And how is Ubuntu _that_ different than Debian?

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Another well fed troll waddles off.. by delire · 2005-11-22 02:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Silly. It would seem now that Novell are taking the claims seriously - a bad move on the part of their PR/Marketing department. They would have got far more mileage with a billboard scale "Whatever Bill" campaign, if at all.