__/ [ Ray Ingles ] on Friday 31 March 2006 20:34 \__
> On 2006-03-31, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Where do Unix shops who want to migrate go next? You'd think they go
>>| for Linux. Or is it Windows? It depends who's asking.
>
> Without the actual data, it's kind of hard to evaluate the reports and
> whether their percentatges are really statistically significant.
> Interesting to read, though.
They would also have you believe that Linux TCO is higher and companies
cannot migrate to OpenOffice successfully.
You know what OSDL once said: Microsoft can take a peek at a 100 page re-
port, find one flaterring sentence, isolate it from its context and then
spend bi/millions echoing what that sentence embodies. In principle, Mi-
crosoft could conduct 100 such studies and only publish that one which
favoured them. The company has big pockets, but I would suggest that their
/selection/ was biassed, /not/ the instantiation they had used for the
'study'.
By the way, why do Microsoft studies always hide behind an identity of an-
other company? They already got some researchers embargoed for not reveal-
ing the fact that they were secretly employed by Microsoft and then spread
security FUD in conferences. Microsoft employ formidable researchers. It's
a fact.
Best wishes,
Roy
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