[linux-help] Re: Linux slam attached from zdnet

[gLaNDix <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good lord, i skimmed about 3 or 4 random lines and didn't find anything
remotely positive (or accurate, really)...  that sux!

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Michael Holmes wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:10:32 -0500
> From: Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> To: "'linux-help@xxxxxxxxx'" <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [linux-help] Linux slam attached from zdnet
>
> Zdnet used to be very hard on M$ then they got rid of the slammer and every
> since, they have been woowing (however spelled) M$; now along the pike
> comes this major slam!
>
> Mike
>
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> Want Linux on your desktop? Nine reasons to forget about it By David
> Coursey, AnchorDesk <http://www.anchordesk.com> June 11, 2001 9:00 PM PT
> URL:
> <http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2773365,00.html?c
> hkpt=zdhpnews02>  Linux is an important part of the computing landscape.
> Important because open standards matter. Important because it creates
> competition and a looming threat to Microsoft. Important because it gives a
> large number of geeks and wonks a religion to belong to--complete with a
> patriarch
> <http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2762177,00.html>.
>  Religion is a good thing, I believe, right up to the moment it makes a
> fool out of you. And a good many Linux?what's the term? Proponents?
> Advocates? No, zealots!--yes, a good many Linux zealots make fools of
> themselves.  I don't have Ninety-Five Theses to nail to the Wittenberg
> Door, as Martin Luther
> <http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761570003> did, but I
> take my reformation work where I can find it. So here are some ideas for
> reforming people's wrong-headed notions of Linux:  Linux will never become
> common as a desktop operating system, and no amount of believing will
> change that. It only makes adherents look stupid. Why? Because Linux is too
> complex, and there isn't enough money to make it worth someone's time to
> build a really great environment for desktop apps. And then software
> companies would need to build applications, but how large a market is
> there? Yes, chicken-and-egg, but that stops many things, not just desktop
> Linux.  If client-side Java had lived up to the promise of "write once, run
> anywhere" then Linux would have a bigger, but hardly fighting, chance of
> unseating desktop Windows.  Linux, desktop especially but also server, is
> not a major threat to Microsoft. But it is enough of a threat to make
> Microsoft notice, and that is usually a good thing. Microsoft will be on
> the defensive, at least a little, and that gives customers some leverage
> they don't otherwise enjoy.  I don't have numbers to support this, but
> Linux may be a bigger threat to various flavors of UNIX than it is to
> Microsoft server operating systems.  There's at least a 50/50 probability
> that Linux will become Balkanized just as UNIX was. There will be multiple,
> semi-compatible versions of Unix that seem to be one operating system,
> right up until you try to install applications. Surprise! Not the Solaris
> version? Sorry!  People talk about how wonderful it is that Linux is free.
> But over the life of a server, the operating system is such a small part of
> the cost that it gets lost in the other soft- and hard-dollar expenses. And
> you'd think systems offering the lowest total cost-of-ownership would sell
> better than they usually do. Apple, for many years, claimed a big TCO lead
> over Windows. But did it help?  Big hardware companies may yet co-opt
> Linux: Here's an operating system they can load, create add-ons for, and
> then sell support contracts for. Add some minor barriers to switching to
> other platforms and operating systems--either Microsoft or another
> Linux--and you might have something. Isn't this how Sun became King of
> Unix?  Linux is a fine server operating system Use it with my blessing, but
> don't let it define you, your IS shop, or your company. And don't select
> Linux just because you hate Microsoft. That isn't good enough reason to
> pick an operating system.  Linux will be a common operating system in
> places where we don't see an operating system--like home information and
> entertainment appliances. Want Linux? Buy a TiVo digital video recorder.
> Linux makes great sense as an embedded OS, but faces much competition.
> Still, I am betting most people will have some sort of Linux-powered device
> in the lives sometime in the next 5 years or so.  Luther and his followers
> were excommunicated for their beliefs. I don't face anything nearly as
> drastic as that--but I know there are many in the Linux cult ready to
> proclaim me a heretic, or worse.  For my part, I suppose I'm happy there
> are people who define their lives by what operating system they use--if
> only because they're fun to watch. But I am even happier that I'm not one
> of them.  AnchorDesk on radio and television: David is now getting up
> bright and early to visit with Brian Cooley every morning at 7:45 a.m. PT
> on CNET Radio (910AM in the San Francisco Bay Area and at www.cnetradio.com
> <http://www.cnetradio.com> online). He is also co-host of an hour-long
> program every Friday at noon PT on CNET Radio. You can also catch David on
> CNET's News.com TV program, which airs twice every weekend on CNBC (see
> airtimes <http://www.cnet.com/cnettv/0-122653-7-123102.html>) or by going
> to the special CNET TV page
> <http://www.cnet.com/cnettv/0-122653-7-4758609.html> featuring his most
> recent appearances and a link to the Friday radio program.
>
>
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