____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 28 February 2008 17:28 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Windows Server 2008 catching up with Linux
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Windows Server 2008 will never be Linux. And it's not likely to woo Linux
>>| users away from open source anytime soon.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| "There's an anti-Microsoft bias in Unixland," Gillen said. "The more
>>| Microsoft continues to erase objections [with features like PowerShell and
>>| Server Core], the harder it is to make the argument that Windows doesn't
>>| meet their needs."
>> `----
>
> Umm, how about this: "it's proprietary, locked-down, doesn't
> interoperate well with anything else, not a proper multi-user system,
> virtually impossible to administer remotely, needs frequent reboots from
> which it might never recover, needs constant patching using patches
> which frequently break the system, is amazingly insecure, has a very
> high memory, CPU and storage footprint, requires multiple licences for
> each product and each user... (etc.).
searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com rarely makes this mistake of accepting
invitations or contacting Microsoft's mouthpieces with an 'analyst' hat, so
it's a tad surprising. There's this guy from California and Bernard Golden who
they regularly quote, but IDC/Gartner (Partner) is a now low for them. These
firms are known to be corrupted. Even CEOs say so.
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