To: "'jdow'" <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: Linux sucks?
For Microsoft, they have policy, if it's the problem of Microsoft, they wont
charge you. If its problem of your application, they will charge you
heavily.
For Microsoft, they have policy, they charge you heavily for the server OS, they charge you heavily for client access licenses for the server OS, they charge you heavily for the application servers, they charge you heavily for the client access licenses for the application servers, they charge you heavily for the desktop OS, they charge you heavily for the applications for the desktop OS, and they charge you heavily for support calls. What do you get? A really, really expensive IT infrastructure which is highly susceptible to viruses, worms, trojans, hijackers, spyware and other malware.
Then you have the luxury of Microsoft blaming you when your servers get broken into. Oh, and if you're not a Fortune 500 company with a fat support contract, you get less respect from the Microsoft helpdesk people than a garbage man.
As I said, we could never go in production with Linux.
Well, I am in production with several thousand Linux servers and am very happy. Red Hat's support has been *much* better than Microsoft's ever has been.
Thomas
