Re: Linux, Get the facts?

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:

> Hi Guys/Gals,
>
> 	I watched some commercials and I almost puked when I looked at the
> Microsoft Get the Facts for Linux vs Windows Server stuff.
>
> They have a url which is http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts
>
> Is this crap any close to real or by any chance "realistic" ? Are these
> "benchmarks" simple marketing?
>
> .Alejandro
>

If you look at the stuff published by "Security Innovation, Inc.",
in the same link, you can see that they don't presume that the report
will be read by anybody who knows what they are talking about. They take
the PUBLISHED possible problems with Linux and the PUBLISHED possible
problems with closed-source Microsoft and compare them as
"security vulnerabilities".

It's just the usual crap. Oh, they finally changed the software
in their ftp site so it claims to be Microsoft. For many years
they forgot about this and used the Sun ftp. At least it doesn't
respond to WIZ anymore!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.12 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
.
I apologize for the following. I tried to kill it with the above dot :

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