[ale] How the Other Half Lives

[Charles Shapiro]

Thanks man. No harm, no foul

-- CHS

On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:02, Michael Barker wrote:
> Sorry to Charles and anyone else reading.
> 
> I started typing in the wrong spot.
> 
> -Michael
> 
> On Monday 13 May 2002 12:17 pm, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> > Whoa. I never wrote that sentence.
> >
> > "The "How Does Linux Compare?" page supports my philosophy
> >
> > > of why a company will not choose open source over MS.
> >
> > Nor the rest of the comment.
> >
> > -- CHS
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 11:34, Michael Barker wrote:
> > > On Monday 13 May 2002 11:00 am, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> > > The "How Does Linux Compare?" page supports my philosophy
> > > of why a company will not choose open source over MS.
> > >
> > > The business leaders would rather invest in support contracts than
> > > people.  People being the admins and developers that make the linux
> > > implementation work.  Invest means either pay for contracts that can be
> > > enforced in a court of law or build a raport with a talented (not
> > > neccesarily experienced) individual.
> > >
> > > My $.02 USD
> > >
> > > -Michael
> > >
> > > > Hmm. There's been a little movement on the Microsoft anti-Linux FUD
> > > > pages.  At http://wehavethewayout.com there's now a link to "Learn how
> > > > to migrate to windows" which goes to an area at Microsoft.com devoted
> > > > to why and how you should migrate from Unix/Linux to Windows 2000.
> > > > Sample arguments for this move include:
> > > >
> > > >    * Reliability (it's better than Windows NT (
> > > > http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/advancedserver/evaluation/whyupgra
> > > >de/d efault.asp ) ) * Performance (it's faster than Windows NT (
> > > > http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/advancedserver/evaluation/whyupgra
> > > >de/d efault.asp )) * Easier integration ("Linux lacks complete
> > > > programmer toolkits . . ."
> > > > http://www.microsoft.com/sbserver/evaluation/compare/linux.asp)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'ze just reporting the facts here.
> > > >
> > > > -- CHS
> > > > (Linux zealot)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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