:LXer: Report on Banks Choosing Windows Over Linux Twists the Facts
LXer: Report on Banks Choosing Windows Over Linux Twists the Facts Nov 23, 2005, 02 :30 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (9547 reads) (Other stories by Tom Adelstein)
"Rodney Gedda and Howard Dahdah might consider taking a Continuing Education course in Journalism at a local college after the butchery job they did for ComputerWorld on Monday. The story headline 'Banks Choose Windows over Linux' also needed a top edit from the Editor in Chief. So let's set the record straight.
"The authors used a single source vendor out of Sydney, Financial Network Services (FNS), to say what banks do globally. Sorry, but FNS represents one voice of thousands of ISVs in that industry. Statistically, FNS's experience does not mirror the current deployment of Windows or any other platform. The authors presented a flawed report from this aspect alone..."
