MS servers cheaper to operate than Linux?! IDC has sold their soul with this report, just out. They key is that it's a "sponsored report", meaning that MS paid for the research and the foregone conclusion.
I remember the TCO wars of 1994-1995, wherein NT replaced Novell as the defacto network operating system platform in corporate America. This time the MS foe is a little tougher - a federation of companies with IBM at the front. It'll be an interesting fight.
Today is the end of our extended Thanksgiving holiday. We decided to travel on Tuesday to miss the crowds. And after a week in KY, I have a few more things to be thankful for:
In Socal, places to shop other than Walmart
The weather (duh)
My ever-patient wife
Broadband. I'm so-oooo tired of dial-up speeds.
The quality of Boeing engineering. (Please, please promise you'll never put Windows in a 7x7!)
Also found via Doc Searls: Geekmaids. I'm not sure what to think about this. First reaction, cool. Second reaction...why? Simply a result of the dot-bomb? If so, they give a whole new meaning to "...we also do Windows".
From Doc, just heard the new acronym that describes the base technical architecture for cost-effective systems: LAMP, for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and (Perl or Python or PHP). I find it interesting that we're now in the age where we specify the software platform rather than the hardware - it wasn't so when I started out, at the dawn of computing.
