Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [OT] [NEWS STORY] Crap on MSNBC | From | Mark Montague <> | Date | 06 Apr 1999 04:31:43 -0700 |
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You can download the "Executive Summary" for free from <URL:http://www.dhbrown.com/cffiles/onlinecatalog.cfm> if you want to evaluate it for yourself, rather than letting MSNBC think for you (unfortunately, too many people will...). Or you could shell out $1000 and get the whole report, as well as the right to annoy the author via a teleconference. Personally, I chose the former.
I think it's a good read. Their assessment was "tough but fair" in many regards, and I think that linux came out in a relatively good light. They seem to have deliberately taken a very conservative view on what is "part of the OS," which is a double-edged sword... anything that's not explicity part of RedHat 5.2 or Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 is not considered official, but similarly, anything that is not available from MS, HP, Sun, IBM, SGI, or Compaq directly is discounted (but often mentioned) as well. They are also evaluating the "enterprise computing" abilities of these OSes, rather than overall performance, so the MSNBC story was a bit negligent in downplaying the fact that the report is for a specific niche market.
Anyway, read the pdf document... it's much more interesting/relevant than the MSNBC story.
shrug
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