Gawd, what a hoot! A very interesting article, no doubt. > "Imagine the kind of savings you could get if you just stopped using Windows altogether! Few to no security issues. Less administration. Etc."
Well, even Linux ain't totally free, of course. And it can require pretty heavy resources for a Windows-ishy desktop version. I would spend far less ($0, for the time being) on AntiVirus subscriptions, time spent cleaning things up, etc. The AntiVirus savings would be eaten up in a Linux maintenance subscription for some versions (I have been working with Novell Suse Linux Server, and love it so far, but it has a pretty heavy annual subscription for updates and patches. Linspire gold support is $50/year, about the price of AntiVirus annually.) But the real savings would be the peace of mind in knowing I would not have to be looking over my shoulder all the time, waiting for some attack to occur as with Win2k, XP or Win2k3 Server. I really can't argue reliability and stability any longer. Ever since Win2k SP4 I have very little to gripe about, as opposed to Win9x/Me. Perhaps the biggest issue for me is when M$ goes to 64 bit across the board, and VFP is not invited along for the ride. If I am going to have to switch architectural platforms anyway, I am going to get off the merry-go-round on my schedule and pretty much more under my terms and conditions. Linux, PostgreSQL, Python, Dabo, WINE, VMWare and OpenOffice is where I am heading, at least wherever I can. If client prefer to, or are required to, stay in Windows desktops, fine. I will be doing Linux on their servers for my stuff. When I got burned on the Win2k Server CAL PLUS Terminal Server CAL license costs I really got miffed (can you tell?). M$ did more in that underhanded (license is free for 180 days, then Gotcha!) greed grab to lose me than any other move it wever made. > "By the way, the study claims that switching to Vista saves on hardware costs. How could this possibly be, when everything I have ever read on Vista is that it is a resource hog? You spend more on hardware with Vista, not less." Yeah, but you have to replace that old P4 Dual-Core 3Ghz, 2Gb RAM PC someday, don't you? heh-heh... Clearly, we will see more Vista machines rolling out after M$ stops making XP available to PC builders, and folks start to roll off their business PCs at end of lease, or home users have to replace machines that will eventually become outdated. The more I work with Linux the more I want to migrate all I can from a Windows Host platform to Linux, and only run Windows apps that I must under WINE or VMWare (free version). I have so much to learn still in the World Of Linux, but so far it is not all that difficult. All my workstations already have 2Gb RAM, and 2800Mhz CPUs or better. So what the heck? As for Fox under Linux, I am going to try to get that to work (again, as Ed already did this for a project he worked on with me a few years ago), and let M$ come after me if they think it is worth their while. They won;t do so much as chase down folks I reported as serious pirates, so why would they bother with me? Worst case is I end up licensing a M$ OS, and run the app under Linux/WINE anyway. All they want is the money. All I want for myself and my clients is more freedom at less cost. As I see it M$ has not lost me, they have been pushing me away as Linux has been inviting me to come on over and play again instead of working so hard all the time. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Roche > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 2:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [NF] Microsoft starts a "Get the Facts" campaign...against > itself > > > Over at the cnet blogs, Matt Asay writes: > > "You've got to hand it to Microsoft. It hates ANYTHING and ANYONE that > gets in its way of selling its software... Including, apparently, > itself... In a very funny turn of events, Microsoft is out preaching > to the industry that XP is a bloated expense hog, while svelte Vista > will cure world hunger (or, at least, cost less),..." > > "Anyway, Microsoft must really be hurting if it has to resort to > beating up on its most stable product in years. It's clearly desperate > to get people to move off XP (you know, the Windows OS that actually > has hardware/peripheral support, a lot of software written for it, > needs a lighter hardware platform, etc.). Maybe the open-source crowd > should just wait for Microsoft to beat itself into oblivion." > > Source:: > http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9773662-16.html?part=rss&tag=fe > ed&subj=TheOpenRoad > > or: http://tinyurl.com/yrue24 > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
