[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“This week’s ‘Windows is cheaper than Linux’ story comes to us
courtesy of Giga Research, which with the aid of Microsoft funding
has produced a study indicating that it is cheaper to create a
portal using Windows and Microsoft development tools than using
Linux and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) tools. The study is
apparently to be used by Microsoft’s new kinder, gentler and more
fact-based GM for platform strategy Martin Taylor in his campaign
to convince customers that nine out of ten cats who expressed a
preference reckoned that Linux is pooh. And in this campaign, he
has the best facts money can buy.“We accept that was unfair, but submit that it was eminently
called for. At time of writing the latest study had not yet graced
Microsoft’s large and growing pile of proof that Windows is better
than Linux, and we accept that it’s perfectly possible that under
some circumstances Windows development might work out cheaper than
Linux development, but Microsoft’s current obsession with ‘proving’
its product is better, over and over again, is both futile and
unhealthy…”