Re: Linux, Get the facts?

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 07:36:52 EST


On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:19 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
[...]
> I watched some commercials and I almost puked when I looked at the
> Microsoft Get the Facts for Linux vs Windows Server stuff.
>
> They have a url which is http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts

Yes, this propaganda exists since months.

> Is this crap any close to real or by any chance "realistic" ? Are these
> "benchmarks" simple marketing?

Would you expect anything on *that* server?
Hey, they must sell that stuff. Everything else is not important.

Bernd
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