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The Linux distillery Why Microsoft will dump their anti-Linux rhetoric
The Linux distillery Why Microsoft will dump their anti-Linux rhetoric | Why Microsoft will dump their anti-Linux rhetoric |
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| by David M Williams | |
| Thursday, 01 May 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 4 This last case study doesn’t actually seem to be proving any point against Linux, to my mind. After all, the synopsis basically says SGI sell high performance computers based on Linux. However, they now want to tap into the market of people who prefer a familiar Windows environment. So they’re going to make Windows versions as well as Linux versions of their systems. That’s not a big deal. That’s not a triumph of Windows over Linux.Featured Whitepaper
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Click on the HiChina story above and you get presented a one-pager plus a link for a more detailed Word document which actually contains the case story itself and where all the substance is contained. By contrast, both the iG and SGI case studies take you to the one pager and no further. There is no Word doc to download. There’s no link for the case study. The one pager expounds on what we read earlier but that’s it. It’s not like I interrupted Microsoft half way through putting the story up and I viewed the page right after they’d published the story and right before they attached the case study text to it. The SGI piece is dated 22nd February 2008 and the iG story is dated 1st March 2008. There have been some weeks since these went live but despite being touted as the latest case studies bringing forth the “truth” why you wouldn’t go with Linux there’s just nothing there. The case study has either been forgotten or never occurred – whether in fact or by decree. So what’s even the point of having these two up there? They don’t inform and they can’t be critiqued. Nevertheless, they do give the facade Microsoft are seeking with crafty headlines that claim to give you the facts, the facts being whatever Microsoft want you to believe no matter if they actually have a story to back it up, and no matter if the headline even goes with the story. Ok, let’s press on. This time I’ll just pick a case study again. I come across this tempting tale for large broadcasting house Austereo Pty Ltd. The headline reads, “No more fixes – How a radio network saved time and money turning off Linux and tuning into Microsoft.” Wow, so in this story we’ll see a Linux shop that – as expected with iG above – made a legitimate comparison. Can it be true? Please read on – and at last, what I’m going to do. CONTINUED |
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