Like I said earlier, the article is basically friendly to Linux with
some errors. To highlight the major quotes:
[+] ...senior executives [of Microsoft] admitted that they'd not be
able to make a cheaper or better [!!] product.
[Error] ...but no one is allowed to charge money for [Linux].
[+] ...Linux often outperforms Unix or Microsoft Windows and NT
operating systems and at a fraction of the cost.
[+] If Linux grows the same way, by year-end it could eclipse
Microsoft's NT as the server market leader.
[+] Users claim that Linux is totally customisable and unbelievably
stable. Daimler-Benz, for one, ran its servers on Linux for a [sic]
year and did not need to reboot their system even once.
[+] It is also a complete OS and one does not need to buy anything
else to deploy it, while other systems tend to give users the
backbones and then make them pay heavily for required add-ons and
options.
[-] All of Microsofts quotes. What do you expect?
[-] ...Linux's stability is yet to be proven in handling heavy loads
on big, multi-processor machines... [True, IMHO].
[-] A report by a leading Unix analyst said that...[Linux] fell short
of high-end Unixes in... multiprocessing and high availability
clustering and file system features like journalling, large file [sic]
and logical volume support. [Also true, though the scenario is
changing].
[-] The highlighted quotes in large type: Bill Gates on Linux and
Linux-Delhi indulging in MS-proponent-bashing instead of the usual
MS-bashing *duck*. I mean, what's the relevance of a photo of Billu
Badshah standing on a Microsoft podium to an article on Linux anyway?
Seems like a fairly balanced, if not an overtly pro-Linux article on
the whole. I don't really see any signs of sponsorship, or of
paranoia about Linux in India being linked to any one particular brand
name. Just my opinion, of course.
I need not mention the biggest boo-boo of 'em all in the article
again, do I?
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "Atul" == Atul Chitnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> "Nothing is safe with millions hackers piling onto to the open
>> source code and changing it according to their wills and
>> fancies"
>> "How can you have a secure product when its source code is open
>> and freely available on the internet for all and sundry"
Atul> The more I look at it, the more it appears to me that this
Atul> article was "sponsored", with a definite objective in
Atul> mind. I wonder whether it has something to do with the Linux
Atul> Pavilion at Bangalore IT.COM in a month's time, plus the
Atul> upcoming PCQ issue, plus the LDD stuff in Delhi, plus....
Atul> Nice to know that some people find it necessary to attack
Atul> Linux in India, too. It means that Linux India is beginning
Atul> to make inroads into a sensitive area of the market.....
Atul> Naturally the *last* thing we want to do now is repond in
Atul> kind. We are far too mature for such childishness, right?
Atul> ;-)
Atul> Atul
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