[clug-talk] Bill running scared

[Frank Ledderhof]

Guess who's advertising on Linuxplanet.com?  Yep, our old friend Bill. 
He wants us to be aware that "Mainframe Linux was found to be 10x more 
expensive than Windoze Server 2003".  I see you protesting; the denial 
is palpable.  But it must be true: after all, it's right there in black 
and white, and the study was audited by the META Group.

Yep, $40/MB/s for M$ vs $415 for Mainframe Linux.

Can't provide a link (it's a Flash ad) but a quick surf to the 
Linuxplanet.com home page will show the ad in question.  The "get the 
facts" button takes you to

http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts

Must be a popular web page.  It renders as a plain text screen with the 
message:

>>>Gateway Timeout
>>>The following error occurred:
>>>Server unreachable
>>>Please contact the administrator.
Sure glad it's being served by Server 2k3!  Cheap _and_ reliable!  ROFL

That little old penguin must really be making Bill nervous.  What's 
next?  Guys in suits picketing Linux vendors with leaflets?

I'm racking my brain trying to find a business analogy, but...the irony 
is obvious.  Good grief!

Frank

--
Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he
wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. -Harry Emerson
Fosdick, preacher and author (1878-1969)


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