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EnigmaOne
05-31-2006, 03:34 PM
Just got off the phone with one of those technology survey companies that telephones CEOs and Sole Proprietors, to obtain opinions regarding Operating Systems.

She sounded like such a nice person, too.

{evil grin}

It was (obviously) an m$-funded survey, designed to elicit only positive numbers for Server2003.

I (honestly) hammered S2003 by comparing it to Linux, and baked about 15 different distros into my answers; stating that each situation is unique, so we need the strengths of many distros out there to support the wide-range of customers we have.

"Why did I choose Linux, and where does the training come from for us?"

Security, Reliability, Scalability, range of development tools, and TCO.

We get people who are trained in University.

I could hear her smiling, and thought I could hear signs of her being coached.

Who wants to bet that my answers will be excluded from the final analysis?

hard candy
05-31-2006, 04:20 PM
I'll bet it was the Gartner Group. Recent news stories have Linux and Solaris Unix increasing their shares of the server market.
Article (http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/228882.htm)

Parcival
06-01-2006, 06:13 AM
Who wants to bet that my answers will be excluded from the final analysis?

Well, if they are not interested in the real results, why do they even waste the resources for doing the calls? :confused: It would be much cheaper if they had a nice vaccation on Hawai and hammer some figures into their laptops at the pool. :p

soulestream
06-01-2006, 12:16 PM
Yeah, they could just take a que from Sony and write their own reviews.


Soule