On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:17, Sacha Chua wrote: > "Andre John Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > how could apache be more economical than IIS when in fact IIS is already > > built into Windows NT/2000? this kind of reasoning doesn't make sense > > (remember Microsoft's previous tagline "making it all make sense"?) > > It's not just about the up-front price of the software but also about > stability and security. =)
After reading the commissioned study, the study does make an excuse - it is costly for a firm to train people to migrate to a new environment, especially if the firm is locked-in solely to proprietary solutions. It doesn't mention the costs due to licensing, hardware acquisition costs, productivity issues due to system and software stability, vulnerabilities due to the relatively slow speed of resolving security issues, as well as dangers of being locked to a single provider.It's either this excuse or it's already a disturbing trend in the computer industry that firms invest far more on tools rather than the people who use the tools. To put it bluntly - tools are more important than people nowadays (I hope this isn't the case). Anyway, it's all reminiscent of history - there are powerful entities that refuse to let people free by discouraging them to learn the skills for themselves, and instead promote the bliss due to ignorance. Relating to the tools analogy, these powerful entities provide the tools to their people, but discouraging these people from looking for more suitable ones, better tools or even the opportunity to improve the tools without being at the mercy of these powerful entities, which if done, would set these people free. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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