Yankee Group Says Linux Outperforms Windows in Virtual Environments
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| Open source (primarily Linux) beats proprietary (Windows) in a virtual
| environment.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/linux/15531/yankee-goup-says-linux-outperforms-windows-virtual-environments
Ouch. It was somewhere in the text. Yankee Group is considered a Microsoft
lapdog with a long history at that. Another Microsoft shill is Barron’s (see
recent references below).
Barron’s Red Hat Coverage Is All Wrong
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| The VAR Guy opened today’s edition of Barron’s and shook his head in
| disagreement. The financial paper says Red Hat’s revenue will erode amid
| fierce competition from Oracle and the new Microsoft-Novell partnership.
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http://techiqmag.com/2006/11/05/barrons-red-hat-coverage-is-all-wrong/
Related:
Barron's Battle Goes Another Round
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| The contretemps between The Business Press Maven and Barron's turned a bit
| ugly in recent days, even degenerating into a Barron's reporter putting a hex
| on Alex Rodriguez as I headed toward what I hoped to be his 500th home run.
| The hex, I'm sorry to report, worked.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/maven/10373760.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&&cm_cat=FREE&&cm_ite=NA
Stop the Barron's Microsoft Series
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| That particular story about how Microsoft was still a growth stock was dated
| July 26, 2004. Between then and now, it bears mentioning, Microsoft's stock
| price has been stuck in the mud, barely budging in a market that has flown
| to the heavens.
|
| But a horrid call, even made twice, is forgivable. What got me was that
| somewhere else in my steel trap of a mind was the memory of yet a third big
| bullish profile in Barron's by Savitz about how Microsoft was, uh -- hey,
| you're really catching on here -- still a growth stock! That was
| titled "Pointing Up," from a bit over a year ago, April 3, 2006.
|
| The Business Press Maven has a couple of concerns here. These articles appear
| written from the same template, without enough new information to merit such
| repetition, especially this latest one.
|
| Stop the presses! A company stated publicly that it was still relevant! It is
| overkill, boosterism. Microsoft has a public relations department that takes
| care of that; it does not need outside help.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/maven/10371602.html
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
Laura [DiDio] and Me
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| Ah yes, the rules of corporate behavior. And how we all admire them.
| Obviously, the journalist doesn't realize that Shuttleworth was talking about
| free as in speech, not free as in beer. In fact, he used the word freedom,
| not free. But it whizzed right over her head. That is so basic, I will opine,
| with my feet up on the desk, that she hasn't a clue what FOSS is about and
| did not a minute's research on what freedom means in this quotation.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070619092336304
Laura Didio
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| An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows
| in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in
| Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free,
| open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free
| and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though
| it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it
| like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" [1]
|
| Even recently, after admitting that a SCO victory in their case against
| IBM seemed like an extreme longshot, Didio said, "There is a larger
| issue, though: Even if the SCO case gets dismissed entirely, it does
| not remove the copyright cloud hanging over Linux and open source." [2]
|
| [...]
|
| Unsurprisingly, Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
| DiDio. Typical criticisms are a lack of formal Computer Science
| qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft; frequently
| this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
| characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio
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