At 01:03 PM 1/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
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>> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-12/lw-12-vcontrol.html?a01-04
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>A FUD campaign against Linux won't work, because Linux is a superior
>operating system. The more Microsoft tries to raise different issues,
>the more of their own weaknesses will be revealed.
Actually, the FUD mentality is to convice people that the product
a) will not be around for the foreseeable future
b) will not be compatable with the other solutions the company is using
c) be more difficult to implement, therefore less cost effective
d) is fundementally flawed
>Anyways, most business desicions are not made on technical merit
>anymore.
>It is lobbying, expensive lunches, backroom payola, stock deals, etc,
>which
>get contracts nowadays. So you have got to figure that Microsoft
>will continue to dominate. Their representatives can make more
>campaign donations, dress fancier, give fancy seminars, and probably can
>afford
>investigators dig up dirt on the opposition.
Actually most biz decisions are made on
a) availability
b) longevity
c) price
d) usability
>Also, you have to figure that with all the technical brainpower
>at their disposal, eventually they will get windows NT into a
>respectable OS. Of course you will need a minimum pentium MMX
>running at 400 MHz, with 128 Megs of 10 ns ram, and you will still
>be dependent on them.
IMHO, NT will never be as reliable, fast, and flexible as linux. Microsoft
has a fundementally flawed take on software design; that the GUI should be
implemented as part of the guts and that adding new features fast is more
important than reliability. This accounts for NT's lack of stability. The
reason it will never be all of those things is the fundemental difference
between the Cathedral and the Bazaar style of development.
On the other hand, another OS is building on the strengths of both
development models and is taking the kernel based OS idea to interesting
new lengths. I'm not talking about BeOS either. I'm talking about Mac OS
X Server.
>Whereas linux users will be able to have full control over their
>machines,
>require less powerful machines to get the same job done, and
>be far less expensive.
>
>Linux was never invented to take on Microsoft, it just so happened
>that alot of people are catching on to the cost-performance ratio
>benefits of linux. That is eroding the "MONOPOLY".
The worst possible attitude Linux programmers can have is that this is a MS
vs. Linux thing. It's not. Linux is about being The Right Thing(tm) for
Everybody(tm) who wants it.
>The battle is in the schools. Whatever the schools can afford, the kids
>will
>learn, and take out in the business world.
>The recent decision by Mexico to use Redhat in their schools is an
>ominous sign for Microsoft.
>I would expect Microsoft to start a campaign to give away their os
>cheaply for school systems to use.
It warms my heart to see so many higher eds using linux for CS. The
education market is why Apple is still alive today.
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