zentara wrote:
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> > I do not believe that the letter as posted to the editor of the NT magazine
> > will work to persuade anyone that Linux is anything but the OS of choice for
> > hobbyists and mouthy teenagers. Too bad, because other than the fact that it
> > appears to have been written by someone in grade 7 with a nasty attitude, it
> > holds more than a grain of truth. Having been written by an adult (or at least
> > sounding like an adult, as the case may be) this letter would serve the Linux
> > "community" much better.
>
> Now, now, calm down little windows user.... you sound like a 7th grader
> with those comments.
> I'll bet Fred Miller's network can out-perform your Window's network,
> nah na-nah na na-nah..........
>
rof,llll...
Windows users are spitting into the wind. Three things drive Linux: it
is stable, it is fast and it costs next to nothing. Especially the
last. Money talks louder than anything else, and people are beginning
to see exactly how much the windows OS really costs. We just completed
a $500,000 upgrade to Win95 where I work. Forgetting Win98 and
supposing that NT-xxxx really is released on 10/6/99 as Gates claims
(again), will my agency spend another half-million bucks in hardware,
software and license upgrade costs just to run Word 2000? When pigs
fly. Even if we purchased a retail SuSE package for each workstation
and server, and ditto for WP8 or applix we are talking less than
$50,000. And, we wouldn't need to junk the old 486's and P75 or P90s.
Rather than pumping more money into Gate's mansion, some of that savings
could go to wages and benefits. (Hear that unions?)
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