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Re: Linux admins violate support agreements ..

* Doug Mentohl peremptorily fired off this memo:

> "Don't touch that package"
>
> "In one study conducted by Security Innovations, researchers found
> that all of the Linux administrators made changes to components of the
> operating system that would have violated the support agreement with
> the Linux vendor"
>
> "Each of the Linux administrators then spent time trying to re-
> configure the system to account for future waves of functional changes
> and patches"
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/windows-server-vs-red-hat-linux.mspx

Microsoft sure spends a lot of time and money talking down the
competition.

Maybe they should have put some of that money into Vista.

And they link to a blog entry that most responders rate 2 stars (out of
5).  No raw data shown, just a bunch of links.  The Red Hat link goes to
another page full of nothing but links.

-- 
Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data
centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It
has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it,
at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.
   -- Bill Gates, "The PC Era Is Just Beginning" in Business Week (22 March 2005)

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