Open Doors to Open Source

http://www.smartbiz.com/article/view/1138/1/60

"These companies absolutely cannot afford downtime. They have plenty of
money; they aren't choosing Linux because it's free."


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

 

Nice graphs. Pity they couldn't label the data or axes on most of them.
Whilst I agree with the sentiment, this lack of real data makes this
article little better than standard Microsoft FUD.

Pity.


Steve

 

Weren't the graphs produced by Netcraft?


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

 

So maybe you should look closer at the data before dismissing
it....First one is number of web servers out there, a more accurate
graph can be found at netcraft, complete with numbers....

The second is RH's shares on the nasdaq, public info and easy to verify...

If you dismiss it that easily.....

shrug....

regards

Thing

 

Ah, so I need to go and look at another site off my own bat, just to find
out what the published graph means? Good journalism there, then.

Yup. I dismiss this article for the above reasons. As I said, I agree with
the sentiment. A bit more work and the opposite would have been true.

Steve

 

And were you born with a spoon in your mouth as well?


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

 

WTF does that mean? That it's normal to have to complete the journalists
research?

You seem to ignore the fact ( and snip from your reply ) that I am
actually on the side of FLOSS, especially seeing as I make my living
supporting linux servers.

Lets be honest about this. The first graph, $deity knows what is actually
is, has the heading:

'Apache: On the Warpath: Apache is a free open source webserver that runs
on most operating systems. The following graph shows how it has been
taking market share from Microsoft's webserver (and others) since 1995.'

How can it be 'taking market share from Microsoft's webserver' when is has
been the single most popular web server since April 1996, before IIS
existed. How can it be taking market share from linux, sun, hp...
servers, where IIS doesn't run? See the original of the graph, with
figures, at http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html. You
can see that it has taken market share from NCSA and Sun/Netscape ( and
other ), but clearly NOT Microsoft.

Why do I, the reader, have to go and find what is misrepresented by sloppy
journalism?

 

It was not "Journalism" - it was reportage.

Journalism would be accurate, objective and unbiased.

Have you not heard the expression "Born with a silver spoon in his mouth"?


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

 

Or in the case of rock star's kids, born with a silver spoon in their noses.

 

Or a plastic spoon? Who said that

 

LOLOL!

Nice. )


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

 

Its a substitute

 

Years ago McDonalds had coffee stirring sticks that had a little spoon
on the end. The became an official measure for one noseful of cocaine.
Once McDonalds heard about that, they changed to the current design
that looks like a little paddle.