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> On Tuesday 19 July 2011 13:40 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ bbgruff on Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 13:14 : \____
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>>> On Tuesday 19 July 2011 12:51 William Poaster wrote:
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>> ____/ William Poaster on Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 12:37 : \____
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>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 11:44 : \____
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
>>>>>>>> royalties:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Why enterprises will skip Windows 8
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/18634/why_enterprises_will_skip_windows_8
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some troll visited there:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Because Linux sucks. It's a nightmare to use and when you serve
>>>>>>>> IT, you have to support it with tons of money and resources.
>>>>>>>> Something you aren't going to get with Linux to the extent you
>>>>>>>> will with Windows. Not to mention the fact that ripping out your
>>>>>>>> entire system to switch to a worse OS costs tons of money and
>>>>>>>> time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When are you Linux sycophants going to give it up?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oh dear, why do we bother trying to replace Microsoft's fine
>>>>>>>> products?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> :-D
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The author is not a Linux fan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Probably a dumb Wintel 'click & point' admin, who just has to have a
>>>>>> GUI on a server. There was one in the Ubuntu group who even ran
>>>>>> screensavers on his! (Unbelievable I know, but true.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And as the majority of the web runs on Linux servers (over 60%
>>>>>> according to Ballmer), it makes his statement even more ludicrous.
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone told me it's a lot more than 60% now (Ballmer said 60% 2 years
>>>>> ago and Red Hat grew a lot since then).
>>>>
>>>> It's quite possible, Roy. :-)
>>>
>>> The biggest survey I've seen was that of Security Space exactly 2 years
>>> ago.
>>>
>>> They surveyed 38,549,333 public web servers, and found:-
>>>
>>> Linux 74.29%
>>> Windows 20.36%
>>> BSD 5.35%
>>>
>>> That's not too different from the W3Techs survey in Sept 2010, which did
>>> "The top 1 Million", and found:
>>>
>>> Linux 63.7%
>>> Windows 33.7%
>>
>> Linux haters don't like talking about servers.
>
> ...or numbers. In fact, we seem to have trained them to talk Desktop
> Desktop Desktop now.
> That said, I'm still after a definition of Desktop....!
Yes, talking point goes something like "20 years, 1 percent". I saw that
in other anti-Linux circles as well.
Remember when Google was a garage startup?
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