[plug] M$ justification

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Sat Dec 7 22:06:06 WST 2002


On Saturday 07 December 2002 08:24 am, Peter Tran wrote:
> I've always wondered on the accuracy of these reports,

Wonder no longer!

> it always sounds
> a little dodgy and knowing that Microsoft have been involved with some
> false advertising in the past this might have been

Might have been...? Microsoft? Hah!

> a sponsored plug (no pun intended) to boost sales. :)

> On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 04:43, Mark Nicholls wrote:
>> WINDOWS BETTER VALUE THAN LINUX, SAYS IDC

They `forgot' to take into account the interesting observation that a Linux 
admin can typically shepherd 4x as many boxen doing the same thing as a 
Windows admin can. That takes the Windows Advantage from +20% to -60%. Oops.

Cheers; Leon



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