Some comments: Quote from article: "When I was a developer, I found that about 10 percent of the work you did was writing new functionality. The rest of the work to build enterprise-ready technology involved things like the testing and the upgrade path. The 10 percent is the fun stuff; the 90 percent is the heavy lifting. We have done a great job of learning what it means to do the heavy lifting, but I don't think the (Linux) community has focused as much in focusing on that 90 percent"
Comment: I just had a friend the other night try to upgrade a Windows98 system to WindowsXP. The installer Wizard let him without any complaint. No warnings about compatibility issues or anything. He then installed a wireless card with drivers and that install trashed his system. When he went to recover using the supplied XP tools it further trashed his system so he could not even boot. He called tech support for the wireless card and was told it is an operating system error and once he got that fixed just download the newest drivers from the website. Some upgrade path, a little more "heavy lifting" type programming all around would have saved my friend a frustrating couple of days. A fellow employee just bought three manuals dealing exclusively with WindowsXP from three different publishers, Microsoft being one, and all three manuals conflict on various subjects. He is adopting the attitude that if two of the manuals "kinda agree" on the subject then ignore the third until proven wrong. Quote from article: "I still believe Linux is an extension of the Unix paradigm. It's a command-line-focused approach that's not particularly designed to be user friendly. The Windows approach is very different. I will say that the adoption of Linux is likely to be bounded by how many companies are happy with Unix. Will it have an ability to be persuasive to people that it's a more cost-effective version of Unix? Yes. For us the key challenge in 2003 will be speaking to Unix users about why they ought to use Windows on Intel rather than Linux on Intel." Comment: Sounds like Apple Macintosh versus MS Windows circa 1988....And you see where that argument got Apple... > -----Original Message----- > From: paultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: January 23, 2003 2:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Microsoft shows Linux some respect > > > Did you all see this? Looks like the MS spin doctors finally figured > out that the "Linux is an anti-capitalistic cancer" approach wasn't > going to work! > > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-981552.html >
