On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:24 +0800, Hendra wrote: > ...and that's the title of an article in Strait Time's Digital Life > supplement today. > > The article told a story about Virtual Map, the company behind > streetdirectory.com, who's in the midst of migrating its servers > infrastructure from Linux to Windows Server 2008. The same company was > in the news recently for copyright infringement of Singapore Land > Authority's street map. > > The reason for the migration after 8 years of using Linux? one Eugene > Lim, the director of business development, mentioned about the > difficulty on finding a Mandrake sysadmin. Yes, it has to be Mandrake, > coz as if any other Linux sysadmin won't fit the bill, so at the end, > they ended up with a Fedora Core sysadmin, and as a result they have > to migrate to Fedora Core "all because of one guy". To cut the long > story short, they've somehow "decided" to turn to Microsoft for help > last year to switch to Windows Server 2008. > > I almost choked on my lunch, laughing so hard while reading this > article. I tried to search for the "Advertorial" text on top of the > page as they would normally put for sponsored content, but couldn't > find one. To me, it really smells like a paid job thou. > > I say: C'mon... > > Is this for real?
this is a bad article. i remember reading a para citing the reason for shifting away from Fedora is because the community is "no longer" supporting it. really ... i think the editorial needs to get the facts right ... either educate the interviewee or provide a clarification. this highlights the lack of depth in editorial as well as the interviewee. bad on both counts. fedora is an on-going project and the reason is simply because they refuse to update/upgrade their existing fedora distribution. and in the first place ... choosing fedora as a production distribution for a server? hugh? please ... personally, i'm hoping to see a formal rebuttal, perhaps something from the local fedora ambassadors? good, knowledgeable engineers don't come cheap. i guess this is a case of you pay peanuts, you get monk*ys ... and you know what kind of advice they give. sigh. _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
