Benjamin Scott said:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> > Recently, they seem to have lightened up on Linux & OS. Maybe because IBM
> > (one of their major advertisers, MS being another one) is supporting it.
> > However, they still seem to take a lot of the "linuxgram" method - damning
> > with faint praise, reporting every problem, etc.
>
> I used to read InfoWorld at my last job (mainly because they bombarded us
> with free copies of it). I generally found them a reasonably unbiased source
> of IT news. Or at least, equally unbiased. They generally took the tact that
> IT is a job to get done. Anything that made it easier was good; anything that
> made it harder was bad. It was a good mix of IT and "business".
>
you must have missed there "Microsoft can do no wrong" period. They awarded
DB of the year to MS SQL Server SOLELY because someone liked the User
Interface. They admitted they hadn't tested it. They admitted it wouldn't
scale as well as Oracle, et al. They admitted that, at the time, it had
failed to meet their criteria for inclusion in the competition. Their sole
justification for the DB of the year: the UI. Well, that and "Microsoft will
improve it." I was part of a long argument in their (now defunct, and don't
get me started about that fiasco) forums about it. Another time they did a
"review" of Active Directory (still vaporware, no code in existence AT ALL -
merely the marketing papers from MS). Their conclusion? Must buy now. Don't
bother with NDS. NDS is dead. NDS (existing, working) doess not as good as
AD (vaporware). NDS should be morphed to AD. Don't buy NDS. Hm. NDS then
was in it's 3rd working, existing, version. AD was marketware. That's
objectivity.
Bottom line, if Microsoft did it, it was innovative and pace-setting. Never
mind that 20 people could bring up examples of products that had done the
exact same thing earlier (some of which were purchased by MS, where do you
think they got the "innovation?"). Never mind that the MS stuff normally
wasn't as (scalable, robust, usable, insert your favorite word here) as the
other products. Never mind that the other products were here now, and MS
wasn't.
Right after the forums fiasco, I decided that the "IT News for Professionals"
that refused the help of a number of professional web developers and software
professionals in improving their web site / forum software because "we have a
contract with company X, we don't care what our customers are telling us is
wrong," probably wasn't worth my time.
Maybe they've changed. I'll go back and look again.
jeff
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