Linux sucks?

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kunal Shah" <kunalv.shah at gmail.com>
To: "'jdow'" <jdow at earthlink.net>; "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" 
<fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: Linux sucks?


> For Microsoft, they have policy, if it's the problem of Microsoft, they 
> wont
> charge you. If its problem of your application, they will charge you
> heavily.

For Microsoft, they have policy, they charge you heavily for the server OS, 
they charge you heavily for client access licenses for the server OS, they 
charge you heavily for the application servers, they charge you heavily for 
the client access licenses for the application servers, they charge you 
heavily for the desktop OS, they charge you heavily for the applications for 
the desktop OS, and they charge you heavily for support calls.  What do you 
get?  A really, really expensive IT infrastructure which is highly 
susceptible to viruses, worms, trojans, hijackers, spyware and other 
malware.

Then you have the luxury of Microsoft blaming you when your servers get 
broken into.  Oh, and if you're not a Fortune 500 company with a fat support 
contract, you get less respect from the Microsoft helpdesk people than a 
garbage man.

> As I said, we could never go in production with Linux.

Well, I am in production with several thousand Linux servers and am very 
happy.  Red Hat's support has been *much* better than Microsoft's ever has 
been.

Thomas