[Lula] Microsoft anti-Linux message to its partners

[Jack Denman]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 20:47 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Here's what Microsoft is sending out to its ISV partners about Linux:

Dan,

The certificates are bad according to Firefox. Is this site an impostor,
or did Microsoft screw up, or is there a browser problem?

> 
> --- snip ---
> Partner Insight: A Financial Institution Sees No ROI on Desktop Linux
> Gartner Reports <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5079489>
> Annual maintenance costs for desktop Linux, IP risks, and
> compatibility issues with open-source office products persuaded the
> institution to upgrade to Windows XP and Office 2003 instead of moving
> to Linux/OSO. Read the entire report.
> <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5079504>

I can rebut this. The insecurities if Windows systems are never reported
in any survey I have read by M$, or people that they pay to conduct
them. Literally Billions of dollars of damage to Windows systems (2
Billion alone estimated with the "Love Bug) are omitted from ROI
comparisons of Windows to GNU/Linux.Did they include the virus/worm cost
in the study?

Cost estimations for comparison need values for that do not exist with
GNU/Linux. There is no way to survey systems that are not recorded; and
many GNU/Linux Desktop systems remain unaccounted for.  Windows systems
are accounted for my the licenses issued when sold and GNU/Linux servers
can be counted but not the desktops.

> 
> 
> Competitive Selling Series, 3 of 3: Understanding Novell Customers and
> Their Needs <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5079490>
> Use this guide to effectively discuss issues and answer questions that
> concern Novell environment organizations in order to interest them in
> migrating to a Microsoft Windows environment. Read the guide.
> <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5079505>

After 15 years of attacks by M$, GNU/Linux is still here and thriving
despite the tens of Billions of dollars of the war arsenal of M$. This
report above contradicts earlier projections by Gartner that the growth
of GNU/Linux servers will exceed Windows servers and have 40% of the
server market share in the next 10 years and estimated to grow even
more. If Gartner has reversed the projection, why didn't the report
state the reason for the reversal?

> 
> --- snip ---
> 
> I wonder if anyone's put together a rebuttal...
> - Dan
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Jack Denman <cashmere at adelphia.net>

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