NT loses. No matter what.

[rajesht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rajesh Thiharie)]

You ever heard of Public Relation Agencies. 
You know Microsoft has money power. 
Nobody has a full fledged media strategy to push Linux everywhere.
Nobody's got loads of money to push articles on Linux. Linux is doing it
on MERIT. Sheer merit. Period.
Editor/writers can be convinced to rig. Money makes the world go round.

Also nobody's forcing you to believe what I say is correct. ;-) 
It's a free world remember. ;-]
There's a song by Nirvana which has these lines.
" I think I'm dumb. But maybe I'm happy." [With Linux] The part in the
brackets added by me.

What say?!?!?!

Use NT. Have fun with the GUI. 
Command lines need brains.
The truth is bitter.

Sudhir Parasuram wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know what to say about this "hype". Please visit
> http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/printme/0,4235,407644,00.html
> inorder to get a level-headed picture.
> 
> > It's a lot of marketing hype.
> > Period.
> > Check out http://www.linux-vs-nt.org/ and you'll know what the truth.
> 
> Please verify the URLs that u give for reference are existent.
> 
> > NT doesn't even have TCP/IP implemeted properly.
> > Forget about other things.
> > The NT server ships without a telnet daemon/client. If you don't get
> > even basic stuff and get to be 400% better it's a lot of very hot air.
> >
> > Can a physically challenged [NT] individual win the 100 m at the
> > Olympic. Microsoft would have you believe that it can.
> >
> > The rest is .... what you think / believe.
> 
> I am also including the material here. Please excuse me for the
> bandwidth being wasted.
> 
> ***************************************************************************************
> 
> Only level heads will get Linux in business
> By Pankaj Chowdhry
> Jun 28 1999 12:04:06:000AM
> 
> When I first moved to California from Louisiana, my friends didn't think
> I would make it. "You can take the boy out of the bayou, but you can't
> take the bayou out of the boy," they'd say. They must have forgotten
> that I'm from India, which 20 years ago made
> Louisiana look like a high-tech heaven.
> 
> Since leaving the gator-infested swamps of Louisiana for the
> shark-infested streets of Silicon Valley, I've changed. The way I walk,
> talk, dress and think have all been influenced by my new environment,
> but the transition wasn't easy. During my first years in California, I
> saw more than a few people fight off laughter listening to me describe
> their routing table problems in my New Delhi-Louisiana patois.
> 
> Today, I see similar bewilderment on the faces of traditional IT experts
> as they listen to young code warriors expounding on the enterprise
> merits of open-source operating systems. The open-source folks
> understand what they are saying, but others struggle
> with the dialect.
> 
> I made the connection between their language barrier and mine this month
> while PC Week Labs was hosting an open benchmark pitting Linux against
> Windows NT. Technical issues aside, the testing was some of the most
> difficult we've ever performed. The personalities present were more
> powerful than any quad Xeon server, and I feared we'd have our hands
> full trying to keep the contestants from biting each other.
> 
> True to my expectations, the Linux group included one vitriolic Young
> Turk from Penguin Computing who delighted in chiding any code to which
> the world does not have access. Surprisingly, though, he was in the
> minority.
> 
> Imagine my shock when Doug Ledford and Zach Brown from Red Hat spoke
> kind words about Microsoft and its wares. They are in no way fans of NT,
> but they are very familiar with its inner workings.
> 
> A few nuts mixed in
> 
> A few hours with them changed my view of the Linux community. Sure,
> there are firebrands, but most of the experts are highly intelligent and
> quite sound of mind. Unfortunately, perceptions of the Linux community
> are shaped by Web sites such as
> www.slashdot.org, where self-styled experts who have the collective IQ
> of an AOL CD post inflammatory propaganda.
> 
> During our initial meeting, some Linux advocates were railing about
> "benchmarketing," but the more intelligent ones were using the
> opportunity to improve their operating system. In fact, the Red Hat guys
> spent an extra day at our labs stress-testing some of the new code
> developed during the benchmarking.
> 
> My experience showed me that the Linux community faces a tough road to
> the promised land of the enterprise. It must perform a makeover not
> unlike my transformation from bayou bumpkin to Silicon savant. Not only
> does Linux need better architecture and management, but the Linux image
> also needs a lot of polish. First and foremost, the stupid people need
> to shut up and let the more intelligent folks speak.
> 
> A fanatical following got the Mac OS nowhere fast; to call it a niche OS
> now is to pay it a compliment. The button-down corporate community has
> no appetite for the fanatical rantings of a fringe community, and
> companies trying to make money off Linux should
> have no time for them either.
> 
> How would you make over Linux?
> Contact me at pankaj_chowdhry@xxxxxxx
> 
> ***************************************************************************************
> 
> And b4 u start flaming me, please try and understand that I am no fan of
> Winduhs either.
> 
> Bye 4 now,
> Sudhir.P
> --
> When you hit rock bottom, there is no way, but, up.
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