Stick it to the man, kick all this FUD into touch!
Wednesday 7th June, 2006 | 7:50 pmIt’s not often I trackback to other blogs as I’m not a fan of posts that simply link elsewhere and you don’t actually end up with any story or breaking news. But, I’ve followed Jeremy’s blog over at Linux Questions for a while now, and his latest article was just beautiful!
Like many, even those that aren’t necessarily big Linux advocates, I’m bored with statistics and reports trying to prove Windows servers are more cost-effective, econimcal, stable, secure and easier to manage than Linux servers. It’s quite simply untrue. The quote in question claimed “Windows 2003 Server, in fact, led the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux with nearly 20 percent more annual uptime“, which is like pulling a rabbit out of my man-sized ass. You’re needing to run into some *serious* problems to have a margin of uptime that different.
One sentence I just loved from Jeremy’s article was:
“When you get a bunch of Linux boxes setup by MCSE’s it’s no wonder why things came out like they did”
which is quite true. Even though many reports aren’t backed by Microsoft, they do seem to be being conducted primarily by Windows-based/trained engineers (if that’s even the correct description of these people). I doubt many of these reports that look at things from a test-bed environment have to actually run them in the real world.
But, the final sentence was wonderful, poking fun at the Yankee Group whom were behind the report:
“The completely hilarious thing about this is that the Yankee Group has absolutely no business even talking about uptime when they can’t keep their own web server up for more than 20 days. It incidentally runs Windows 2000.”
Check out Jeremy’s full post here - http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/blog/_archives/2006/6/7/2013415.html
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Iain Foulds, 25 years old. Originally from England, now living in Bethel, Alaska where I work as a systems analyst for the school district. I've been involved in a number of open source projects for many years and used to produce two major music podcasts.