Linux-Advocacy Digest #164, Volume #35 Tue, 12 Jun 01 16:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Microsft IE6 smart tags ("Erik Funkenbusch")
Re: IBM Goes Gay (Rex Ballard)
Re: Microsft IE6 smart tags (Norman D. Megill)
Re: Laugh, it's hilarious. ("Pinocchio Poppins")
Re: So what software is the NYSE running ? (Rex Ballard)
Re: Why homosexuals are no threat to heterosexuals ("S.T. Pickrell")
Re: Microsft IE6 smart tags (Grant Fischer)
Re: Linux penetration MUCH lower than previously claimed ("tony roth")
Re: Here we go again! (Michael Vester)
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From: "Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsft IE6 smart tags
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:25:37 -0500
"GreyCloud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jon Johansan wrote:
> >
> > "Peter Köhlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > T. Max Devlin wrote:
> > > > Said Ayende Rahien in alt.destroy.microsoft on Sun, 10 Jun 2001
14:08:35
> > > >>Actually, the reason I want net worth is to find things out about
other
> > > >>companies.
> > > >>I sometimes post stuff that would be much more interesting if I
could
> > add
> > > >>small tidbits like, "X could buy Y for pocket change".
> > > >
> > > > Actually, Ayende, if you don't mind the advice, it would just make
you
> > > > look foolish.
> > > >
> > >
> > > No, TMax, the one person looking foolish is you.
> > > Ayende is advocating Windows, and he has reasons to do it.
> > > You may find those reasons invalid, but he does it in a quite pleasant
> > > way, very different from Chad Myers and Jon Johanson.
> >
> > Pleasant or not pleasant (from your point of view) doesn't invalidate
things
> > Chad or I may say. I don't think I'm unpleasant but I realize that I am
> > saying things that people who hate MS and it's products won't like to
hear.
> > And sometimes I put linux down too and that would be unpleasant to those
> > that love it. But, again, that doesn't invalidate the facts.
> >
> > > He actually knows what he is talking about.
> >
> > I take offense at that however, I do know what I'm talking about - you
may
> > just not like what you hear...
> >
> > > You, on the other hand, tell us all how vastly superior linux is
compared
> > > to the stuff MS sells. Yet you do not use linux, you use windows.
> > > Seems to be a little contradiction, doesn´t it?
> >
> > So why not fling your "unpleasant" comments at him then? At least we use
the
> > products we advocate religiously.
>
> Hey, when is MS gonna fix VC6.0??
> I've been waiting for over a year and still no fixes.
Are you not aware of the 5 service packs? SP5 was released about 6 months
ago.
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From: Rex Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM Goes Gay
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:45:50 GMT
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IBM has a very aggressive diversity program. The company does
business in
many places like San Francisco and New York City where the LAW
requires
certain protections.
Besides, it's good business. If someone could have a $2 billion
impact on
your bottom line, but he had a boyfriend, your investors really
wouldn't care,
would they? Vint Cerf was deaf and rarely spoke. John Postel looked
like
a Hippie. Several key players in the commercialization of the
Internet were
gay, lesbian, transgendered, or transvestites. That commercialization
effort
has created an industry that moves over $1 trillion/year.
The fact is that most large corporations, and nearly all of the
Fortune 1000
have very aggressive diversity programs which include diversity
training
upon hire, and often with annual updates. Managers must take
additional
training.
Keep in mind that creating an environment that is hostile to gays or
lesbians
is considered a form of sexual harassement under federal law. Many
state
and local laws are even more restrictive. In places such as New
York,
San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, or Minneapolis, there are laws
specifically
protecting people from discrimination on the basis of actual or
perceived
sexual preference.
They are guaranteed the right to equal employment opportunity,
housing,
privacy, and to be secure in their persons (not be assaulted or abused
because they are actually or perceived to be gay).
Just as there are many small towns where other civil rights laws are
not
enforced, I suppose you could find some small town in the U.S. who
adheres to fundamentalist beliefs that include adherence to the
original
Kosher laws regarding all manner of sexuality. If you have a small
business in that town that does business nowhere else, you probably
would come "under the radar". But when you are a big company, with
deep pockets, it's a very bad idea to let some loudmouthed redneck
turn your company into a target for a $20 million lawsuit and $20
million in legal fees.
If you are advocating that we should, perhaps go back to the days
when the Ku Klux Klan would simply whip them to death, or tie them
to a cross which they would then burn, or just lynch them from some
tree, then say so.
Perhaps you'd like to go back to the "good old days" when we simply
burned them at the stake as witches, along with any woman unlucky
enough
to inherit property, lose a child in miscarriage, or to be accused
of witch-craft. It didn't matter whether you were actually guilty,
if you were perceived to be guilty, because you were "different", it
was a rather simple matter to torture you into making a complete
confession, using an exact script to describe your "consorting with
the devil".
flatfish+++ wrote:
> Folks, it's a sad day for IBM supporters because apparently they have
> succumbed to the gay pressure and are mobilizing to support this
> deviant lifestyle.
> A recent memo released to IBM employees includes such comments as:
>
> 1. A "lunch and learn" roundtable on 6/6/01 at 590 Madison ave.
> 2. How IBM plans to attract top gay and lesbian talent.
> 3. The role of IBM's new, dedicated GLBT Sales and Talent team.
>
> The memo, which is not IBM Confidential of Internal BTW, goes on to
> quote the constitution concerning equal rights and freedom of
> expression and so forth.
>
> It also gives a contacts which I am leaving out of this post, but if
> you are interested email me.
>
> So what do ya'll think?
>
> I find it disgusting that IBM will give benefits to homo's living
> together as if they are married yet 2 heterosexual partners will not
> get the same benefits not that I believe in cohabitation before
> marriage, but you get the idea.
Actually, a domestic partnership is available to both gay and
heterosexual
couples. The difference is that marriage is not available to
homosexuals.
The state accepts the assertion made by numerous religions that
Marriage
is a religious rite, and since no established religion universally
condones
marriage, the states tried to come up with a legally binding
agreement.
Prior to the domestic partnership, couples used to adopt each other.
You
could be your own grandpa (since your son was also your father).
Prior to
that, couples who purchased a house had to purchase it in the name of
only
one partner. If that partner died first, the heirs would often sell
the
house, leaving the other partner homeless.
In 1987, nearly 85% of all non custodial parents, mostly (95%)
fathers,
were behind in child support for over six months. Furthermore, most
of these fathers had child support obligations that amounted to less
than 20% of their after-tax income.
Under Clinton's "Dead Beat Dad" laws, child support increased to
over 50% of after tax income (even if mom was getting married next
week),
the right to due process was circumvented by "no fault" divorces in
which
even the attempt to persuade the judge that there might be mitigating
or aggravating circumstances became grounds for contempt of court.
So now we're "Civilized", and collect as much as 80% of a man's income
for FICA, Federal Taxes, State Taxes, "Disability Insurance", child
support,
and alimony, from a man who studied very hard through 16-18 years of
school,
including college, and worked 60-80 hours/week for 4-10 years so that
his
wife and children could have a good life, then give it to his ex-wife
and
her drug using, mentally disabled, crack addicted boyfriend/husband so
that
she can gave a full-time play-mate who doesn't have to work (because
he's
collecting disability for his bad heart, bad back, and severe
depression.
According to one statistic, nearly 75% of the children born in the
U.S. will
not live with the same two parents from birth to high school
graduation.
This is actually promoted by the state and federal governments. You
see,
a non custodial father is taxed at the single rate, child support is
not
deductible, and if the mother ever applies for welfare, the state can
collect 1/3 of the child support until the child reaches 21, whether
the
child is eligible for child support or not.
Furthermore, since the father has to work harder to increase his
income
to cover the expenses of two households, the second household (the
wife's)
is almost entirely taxed at the highest marginal rate. The net effect
is that the state receives as much as 4 times what the child receives.
Because the government LIKES getting this kind of money, social
workers
and "marriage councilors" along with nearly any state funded mental
health
center or social service agency is hawking divorce as a woman's access
to
panacea. In some cases, they even function as a dating service, so
that
they can double the benefit (put mom and dead-beat boyfriend under one
roof
and eliminate his section 8 aid). Furthermore, since visitation from
the
non custodial parent disrupts the children's relationship with the
stepfather
and undermines discipline, the school social worker will recommend
that the judge
not enforce visitation rights.
I've paid as much as 30% of my after-tax income to my wife and her
boyfriend
so that they can raise my children. I was unable to see them for
nearly
7 years. Because her new husband felt threatened by my presence. I
even
had to tell my son to call him "Daddy" and tell him everything he
would have
told me".
I've had some gay men proposition me, but they were quite willing to
accept
my polite refusal. I was a virgin until I was 21 and most of the guys
in
my school were sure that I was gay because I didn't have premarital
sex
with women (this was the late 1960s and early 1970s). When I finally
got
married at age 24, after 4 more years of celibacy, my wife said "I do"
then
came home and said "no sex". The two children were the result of
carefully
planned, carefully timed encounters that coincided with "bachlorette
parties"
which included male strippers and so much alcohol she couldn't
remember how
she got home, or what she did. She's B-, I'm A+, and my son's O+ :-)
Which is the bigger pervert, the gay couple who engage in sex with
each other
by mutual consent, the man who rapes his own wife because it's his
"right",
or the woman who collects $200,000 from a man she just happened to be
married
to when the kids were born. Of course, if the blood test came up
negative,
she couldn't even remember the names of their "real" fathers.
> I realize this is controversial, but I have my opinions and IBM and
> the rest of the earth has theirs.
> I'm not judging, just voicing an objection.
The bottom line is that you have no business putting consequences on
the
activities of any bedroom other than your own. If you are a
faithfully married
man who has mutually satisfying sex with his wife as often as both of
you want,
and you've never had an affair, never neglected her needs, and never
resented
anything she did, and she has never resented anything you did, then I
solute you,
I acknowledge you, and I even admire you and would love to know your
secret.
If you can't claim everything in the paragraph above. If you haven't
even been
married yet, or you haven't had to deal with a pregnant wife asking
you for
ice-cream at 3:00 A.M., if you haven't lived on your $40/week
"allowance" while
she spends the other $5,000, if you have had an affair, if you've
forced her
against her will, if you have ever assumed that no meant yes, or you
ever
paid a women to let you rape her, then you really have no right to
declare
anyone else's sexual activities disgusting.
I realize that the Bible contains passages which explicitly forbid sex
between men. In fact, it forbids a specific type of sex
(nonconsensual)
for which there is no english equivalent to the Hebrew word. The
procedure
is outlined in Leviticus 18 and governs the sanctioned rape of a woman
whose
husband had been killed in battle. This was to reduce the number of
widows
who would have to turn to prostitution and murder to support their
children.
> Only God almighty has the power to judge and his judgement is swift
> and fast.
But you are a christian. Christ taught that to even look at a woman
with
lust in your heart was to commit adultery. Christ taught that the
rich man
would have an easier time getting through the "eye of the needle" (the
smallest
partial in the temple) with a camel than to enter the kingdom of
heaven.
He also taught "God so loved the world, that he gave his only son,
not to judge the world but to redeem (forgive) it.
He also taught, "That which you have done to the least of my brethren,
you have done unto me". If you wish to condemn a homosexual to
starvation,
unemployment, and homelessness, this is what you have done to Christ
himself.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
> flatfish+++
> "Why do they call it a flatfish?"
--
Rex Ballard
It Architect
http://www.open4success.com
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Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsft IE6 smart tags
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norman D. Megill)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:46:19 GMT
In article <3b265e4e$0$2683$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jon Johansan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>"drsquare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On 11 Jun 2001 11:09:04 -0500, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
>> ("Jon Johansan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>> >
>> >Did you know that a simple meta command will disable the links?
>> >Did you know that these links are off by default?
>>
>> I very much doubt that.
>
>You can doubt all you'd like but those two lines remain FACTS. How do we
>know? Download IE6 and see for yourself.
Please tell us what this meta tag is. I searched but could find it
nowhere, even on Microsoft's site.
Thank you.
--Norm
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From: "Pinocchio Poppins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.aol-sucks,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Laugh, it's hilarious.
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:43:09 GMT
"Donal K. Fellows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pinocchio Poppins wrote:
> > "Donal K. Fellows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Pinocchio Poppins wrote:
> >>> I could turn on the swap file and get 40 GB of virtual memory with a
> >>> 128 MB cache.
> >> You need a 64-bit processor
> >
> > What does "64-bit" mean in this context? The P6 processors
> > (snipped: and the Athlon can crunch 96 bits in each cycle.)
>
> It refers (in this instance; sorry about being ambiguous) to the
> addressable space.
Virtual addressable space or physical addressable space?
> > even the Xeon and Itanium processors (snip: can only address
> > 32 MB of physical RAM)
>
> You should try working with a real supercomputer sometime... >:^)
I have. My box is part of the largest supercomputer in the world.
http://www.distributed.net/
> (OK, maybe not. The IRIX64 compilers and libraries are not nice.)
So use the GNU compiler, if it supports that architecture.
> >> (or some horrible tricks that were both developed
> >> and forgotten again in the '80s)
> >
> > Not forgotten. Swapping a sleeping process entirely out to disk
> > is still used in e.g. Solaris.
Which is the modern version of what were once called "overlays" and
were used to circumvent Bill Gates's "640 KB out to be enough for
everybody" limitation in the IBM PC architecture. Of course,
circumventing any digital limitation will land you in a Federal pen.
> I wasn't thinking of that at all. I was thinking of some of the hairier
> tricks with banked memory that were used to give 8-bit processors
> half-meg memories to work with. I *hope* that stuff has been
> forgotten, since it was horrendous to work with...
Not forgotten. There is still an active NES scene.
http://nesdev.parodius.com/
And a banked system would actually be more efficient for some
types of processes; the banks would correspond to the segments
of the x86 architecture. In fact, the modern paged virtual memory
system is just a big bankswitch; in the 68020 days, the paging unit
was placed _between_ the CPU and the memory.
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From: Rex Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: So what software is the NYSE running ?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:13:10 GMT
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Chad Myers wrote:
>
> "Dennis G. Allard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:<84aU6.9834$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > I'm talking about what they [the NYSE] use for managing trades.
> > >
> > > Well, their web site runs under AIX, so one would assume that they're
> > > probably a big IBM shop, and are probably running trades under AIX and/or
> > > OS/390.
> >
> > If they were running anything Microsoft, they would have crashes so much
> > more often it would make this little down time look like a holiday!
>
> You mean like Nasdaq? They're running Microsoft and I haven't heard a peep
> from them about any crashes.
Actually, Microsoft only delivers delayed quotes for NASDAQ. The NASD
members
execute trades using UNIX servers, usually SCO or Solaris. The
brokers may
have a front-end that runs on Windows NT. The trades are registered
on
UNIX servers and posted to OS/390 where they are subsequently cleared.
The UNIX servers stream the trade quotes to UNIX servers which handle
the
real-time feeds and quotes. The Microsoft servers, hundreds of them,
use ODBC connections to the UNIX systems, select quotes 20 minutes or
older,
into the local database, and then serve them via ASP servers. The Web
Servers
select from any available ASP server. There are servers crashing and
bouncing
all the time, but since there are no sessions, no single critical
paths to be
maintained, and no critical time requirements (quotes are delayed "AT
LEAST 20 minutes"). In fact, if the back-end connections failed
completely, you could
still get quotes - the same quotes all day, and Microsoft would have
delivered
their quality of service.
> Well, I guess there goes your theory. Perhaps NYSE should look at NASDAQ
> and see what they're doing.
Actually, they did. Ironically, with Caldera now purchasing the
service
arm of SCO, it is very likely that NASD will be switching to Caldera
Linux
in the very near future. Keep in mind that the dealer members of NASD
need
real-time level-3 quotes, and real-time trade confirmation as well as
servers
capable of securely participating in the electronic arbitration
system.
Microsoft wouldn't want the risk, the liability, or the bad press if
something
went wrong. Microsoft has many "high-profile/low-risk" chores on a
number of
sites. But when it comes to moving real money and accepting real
liability,
they run for cover.
> -c
--
Rex Ballard
It Architect
http://www.open4success.com
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From: "S.T. Pickrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Why homosexuals are no threat to heterosexuals
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:32:03 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drsquare wrote:
> That part that they're equally transferrable through homosexual and
> heterosexual sex.
In Africa and Asia you're certainly right.
In North America, it seems more homosexuals get it. Whether the
gap will close or not is another issue.
Shawn Pickrell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Fischer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsft IE6 smart tags
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:37:56 GMT
On 12 Jun 2001 13:36:07 -0500, Jon Johansan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> They don't have hard cash in the bank. Most of its tied up in stocks and
>> investments.
>
>You are completely wrong. They have $30 billion in cold hard currency in the
>bank. The most of any US corporation. They ALSO have billions in soft
>currency and other investments.
>
>Here is the first quick link I could find in a hurry from way back in 1999
>when they ONLY had $21 billion in cold hard cash
>(http://www.informationweek.com/736/36fncsh.htm)
>
>Go to google and search for Microsoft cash on hand and you'll find wher that
>figure is up and above $30 billion today. That's cash, not soft money. Cash.
>As in buy a few third world countries over lunch cash.
You misunderstand. It would be inefficient to not invest
cash you don't need for operating purposes.
>From MS's 2000 annual report:
The Company considers all liquid interest-earning investments
with a maturity of three months or less at the date of
purchase to be cash equivalents. Short-term investments
generally mature between three months and six years from the
purchase date. All cash and short-term investments are classified
as available for sale and are recorded at market using the specific
identification method; unrealized gains and losses are reflected
in other comprehensive income. Cost approximates market for all
classifications of cash and short-term investments; realized and
unrealized gains and losses were not material.
Balance sheet highlights:
Cash: $0.8B
Cash and equivalents: $4.8B
Cash and short-term investments: $23.8B
Equity and other investments: $17.7B
Get it? They've got 4.8B in cash and investments of duration
less than three months at the end of their fiscal 2000.
Compare that with GE, who also define equivalents as being less
than three months.
Cash and equivalents: $8.2B
Investment Securities: $91.3B
Note that MS has total assets of $52B, compared with GE's $437B.
MS is holding a larger ratio, and that may be what people refer
to when talking about their large cash position.
Grant.
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From: "tony roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux penetration MUCH lower than previously claimed
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:37:02 -0700
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
I don't believe linux has penetrated more then 10% of the actual nos market
but these studies are useless in there current incarnation. It would be
nice to get the list of companies contacted by gartner or idc, I know that
confidentiality might hinder this exercise but I'd like to ask my own set of
questions.
Questions in no particular order
1) How many different nos's do you utilize
2) what types of clients browsers/x/nt/w2k/9x etc
3) what is your primary nos type linux/win/aix/solaris etc
4) Do you forsee any significant changes ie primary nos/client os
5) does your current primary nos provide all of your required services or
do you have a secondary nos to fill in.
anyway I could ask a million more questions but I'll never get the chance,
oh well!
"Jon Johansan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3b26471a$0$263$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=21403
> or
> http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2772060,00.html
>
> But they both say the same thing:
> Gartner Dataquest has reported that 8.6 percent of server shipments in the
> U.S. during the third quarter of 2000 were Linux-based and 97% of those
were
> Red Hat. Another interesting finding was that when so-called "white box,"
or
> non-branded, server purchases were excluded and only branded server
> purchases considered, Linux's share of the market fell to just 6 percent
in
> the third quarter of 2000.
>
> IDC claims a higher figure in previous reports, 27%. But IDC considers ANY
> PC which has Linux installed on it a "Server Environment." Obviously that
> stretches the definition a bit.
>
> Yes, I know the study was partially sponsored by MS (someone has to pay
for
> these things) so please don't fire off stupid replies implying that MS
> purposely contaminated it's own results by 'buying the study' - that's
just
> preposterous. Consider when car companies pay someone like JD Powers to
> guage customer satisfaction - the company that paid for the survey does
NOT
> always come out on top and that's why people trust JD Powers. Same for
both
> IDC and Gartner. They are paid by _someone_ to find something out. If the
> results don't go your way then, sure, it's ok for you to not publish them
> (Ford pays JD Powers to find out if people like the Explorer and it turns
> out they don't - no need to buy Superbowl time to advertise that - but if
> they did like it, of course you advertise it - it's normal and is done all
> the time). So, ahead of time, ANYONE who says "MS paid for it therefore
they
> said whatever MS told them to" is automatically defined as an idiot and
> mindless so don't fall into that hole oK?
>
> Further Quote: [Donn] Miller [of MS] told eWEEK that Microsoft had helped
> sponsor the study to see exactly who was using Linux, what the server
> deployments were and what operating system was running on it.
> "There has been a lot of hype around Linux over the past year, and we
wanted
> to try and find out the real story on its adoption," he said. "While I
admit
> there has been interest in Linux, this by no means accounts for one out of
> every four new servers sold. That is simply ridiculous."
>
> The study results prove that Linux on the server side is still "just a
niche
> play," Miller added. It's unrealistic to look at sales numbers and believe
> that all of these are being deployed. While many users have bought Linux
to
> try it out, a large number of those copies bought, downloaded and acquired
> were tested and then never actually used, he said.
>
> "Many of our customers have tested it, but found that it falls short of
what
> is required for a business server platform," Miller said. "Windows has
good
> penetration on the server side, but the misstated Linux market share
figures
> unfairly present the actual position of Novell and others rather than us."
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Michael Vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Here we go again!
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:14:19 -0700
Ian Pulsford wrote:
>
> Dave Martel wrote:
> >
> > Battle brews over Linux server share
> > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2772060,00.html
> >
> > A study shows linux actually has only 10% of the server market, in
> > contrast to IDC's figures which show it with 27%.
> >
> > Surprise! Microsoft just happens to be one of the study's sponsors!
> >
> > Bet you couldn't have guessed that. <g>
>
> It must be because the one Unix machine is doing half the work and the
> 20 M$ servers are doing the other half.
>
I am not the only one that has made this observation. It takes about one
losedos server for every 20 users. A losedos server should only run one
application like Exchange, MS-SQL or IIS. If you make a server run more
than one application or have more than 20 users, it will inevitably crash.
> Seriously, it would interesting to know what sort of companies they
> polled. Considering M$s involment in this survey, perhaps M$ supplied
> the list of companies (customers) preferred for polling. The companies
> were probably those whose server needs were mostly just file/printer
> services for Windows 98 workgroups. No ISPs or big engineering firms
> need apply.
>
> IanP
Only pro-Microsoft companies were polled. It is easy to generate desirable
statistics if you control the sample.
--
Michael Vester
A credible Linux advocate
"The avalanche has started, it is
too late for the pebbles to vote"
Kosh, Vorlon Ambassador to Babylon 5
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