ZDNet Australia: Linux or Windows? You Decide
Dec 21, 2002, 08:30 (20 Talkback[s])
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"We receive e-mail every week from sys admins fighting the open
source cause (though often at the same time forced to work with
Windows or Solaris, for example), or others who are happy with
their Microsoft environments and telling everyone else to grow
up.
"Those are two instances. Perhaps to get even more general, we
could say there are millions of open source software advocates out
there and one big closed source OS backer. That Microsoft is also
the most successful OS vendor says something about millions of
quiet Windows users. It's what politicians might have once called
the Silent Majority.
"So who should you put your money on? This is one of the biggest
questions in IT and not one we pretend we'll answer in the
following 200 words. However, two recent analyst reports are
instructive..."
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