On 6/23/06, Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, there was an long article in a magazine some years back -- I think it was Upside magazine (since defunct) -- that talked about how large IT companies would give money to IT research groups for a "study". A "study" to make the large IT company look good in some fashion.
You mean like "Whats the price per transaction comparison of a cluster of commodity Dell servers running Windows against a $10 million mainframe running Linux?" Ignoring, of course, that while Linux could run on the servers, too, WIndows couldn't run on the mainframe. And ignoring any other parameters like TCO, reliability, etc... http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/23/2027229&from=rss http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1782587,00.asp -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
