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Business Week Online Laughs at Win2K
ethereal writes, "Business Week Online has a really
humorous article about how we're all going to end up
running Win2K. There's a small pro-Linux wrap-up at the
bottom, however. " The surprising thing about this article
is that it was written by
Sam Jaffe, who is a stock market writer, not a tech guy.
I had one nit-pick with the story (that I'm sure many of
you will pick up on), but it was minor. This was such a
blatant Linux plug that I almost (but not quite) felt sorry
for Microsoft after reading it.
It seems to me that Mr. Jaffe did a pretty darn good job with this article. He's not a technical writer, yet it seems that he has kept himself fairly well informed about the state of the OS market. (Is "market" the right word for a system containing a free product? Hurm. Might "situation" be better?)
He talked about Windows 2000 in ways that would make sense to businessmen, and I bet they wouldn't like what he said. Similarly, he talked about Linux in comprehensible terms, and he painted quite a pretty picture of it. While errors and misinformation are not good, in this case, he made Linux look *better* because of it -- he wasn't saying "There is no GUI," but rather "Look how quickly they made a GUI!"
This article is exactly the sort of thing Linux needs if it is to gain credibility in the business world. System administrators need opinions like Jaffe's as ammunition to fire at the managment of their corporations in order to convince them that Linux is a workable responce to their needs.
I'll be pretty disappointed if his next column is about how he was brutally flamed for one minor error in an otherwise sterling article.