> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:52 PM > To: Mandrake OT-List > Cc: Mandrake Newbie-List > Subject: [newbie] Microsoft slammed over misleading Windows > Linux claims > > > > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18067 > > Compared a mainframe to a dual 900MHz Xeon kit > > By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 25 August 2004, 08:24 > THE UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a > series of public > complaints over an advert in a magazine comparing the cost of > Linux versus > Microsoft Windows. > > An advert it ran compared the two operating systems to each > other, but Windows > was running on a measly dual 900MHz Xeon configuration, while > Linux was > running on a z900 IBM mainframe. > > The advert appeared in an IT magazine and was headed: > "Weighing the cost of > Linux vs Windows? Let's review the facts". > > The ad contained a graph comparing the cost in US dollars > between a Linux > images running on two z900 mainframe CPUs and a Windows > Server 2003 image > running two 900MHz Intel Xeons chips. > > The ad claimed: "Linux was found to be over 10 times more > expensive than > Windows? Servers". It said that "in a recent study audited by leading > independent research analyst Meta Group, measured costs of > Linux running on > IBM's z900 mainframe for Windows-comparable functions of file > serving and Web > serving. The results showed that IBM z900 mainframe running > Linux is much > less capable and vastly more expensive than Windows Server > 2003 as a platform > for server consolidation.*" > > The ASA said the asterisk linked to a footnote that said: > "Results may vary > outside the United States". The people who complained > challenged whether such > a comparison was misleading, because the operating systems > were run on > different hardware. > > In its adjudication, the ASA upheld the complaints. While the > ASA said the > advertisers wanted to compare how competing file set ups were > audited by > Meta, it took expert advice. The IBM z900 running Linux was > 10 times more > expensive than running the Windows OS. It would have been > possible to compare > the two OSes on similar hardware. > > And the ASA ruled readers would infer the ad compared Linux > and Windows OSes > only. > > The ASA said: "Because the comparison included the hardware, > as well as the > operating system and therefore did not show that running a > Linux operating > system was ten times more expensive than running a Windows > operating system, > the Authority concluded that the advertisement was misleading." > > -- > > /\ > Dark< >Lord > \/ > > > What depths are they willing to dive to try to hoodwink innocent users.
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