-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 7:44 pm, Roberto Armenteros wrote:
> I need your help to move the word... > > At my company I am teaching a large group of employees > the great advantage of linux and unix in general over > the M$ Operating System when we talk about performance > and reliability in Corporate MainFrame applications, > webserver, and all kind of internet applications. I am > asking for your help because I would like to have > valid proff and plenty of it due to the great number > of Microsoft contractors in the company, who are > always saying one thing or another. One of them > actually challenged me by saying that MS and Unix in > general share about 50% the main frame business each. > I doubt that. So, please guys give me a hand on this. > The more reliable the sites the better. This is not so much Linux per se as Open Source, but there are masses of facts and figures brought together in this (widely quoted) paper: <http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html> The abstract suggests it's just what you need: "This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures. This paper examines market share, reliability, performance, scaleability, security, and total cost of ownership. It also has sections on non-quantitative issues, unnecessary fears, usage reports, other sites providing related information, and ends with some conclusions." Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9G3XzCv59vFiSU4YRAl8wAKClaYGnM10cKlAUeUK0u8hsh79xfwCgt5LU jr/xptAhQv96dSCyZ1JU8Kc= =sABY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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