the biggest flaw I see in the study is not the timeframes, maybe Red Hat was down for longer, but in the reason given -
But standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said. The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation.
In other words, the technicians running the study did not know how to fix the problems. Now what the hell has technician's ignorance got to do with an OS's reliability? Just because the guy running the box doesn't know what he is doing, doesn't imply that the OS is unreliable.
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the biggest flaw I see in the study is not the timeframes, maybe Red Hat was down for longer, but in the reason given -
/me walks away sadly, shaking his head
But standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said. The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation.
In other words, the technicians running the study did not know how to fix the problems. Now what the hell has technician's ignorance got to do with an OS's reliability? Just because the guy running the box doesn't know what he is doing, doesn't imply that the OS is unreliable.
all your bug are belong to us!!!!