The Continuing War Against Microsoft's "Facts" Campaign 316
davidmwilliams writes "I've been rallying against Microsoft's so-called 'Get the Facts' site for the last fortnight in my blog. Rather than give any legitimate comparison facing off Windows Server vs similarly spec'd Linux options, the Microsoft spin doctors opt for bunkum and hogwash with sensational headlines that don't have any substance underneath. Here's the state of play, including an update on my request to Microsoft PR to do something about the blatant lack of integrity displayed. I also go over the latest case study put up by Microsoft: they promise to show why people are choosing Windows Server 2008 over Linux using the City of Uppsala as an example."
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oh the irony! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pot? Kettle? Black? (Score:5, Funny)
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http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/609/image2jl5.png [imageshack.us]
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http://i27.tinypic.com/34xf094.png [tinypic.com]
Shocked, I am shocked! (Score:5, Funny)
I am honestly shocked! I commend you on your campaign and congratulate you on your inevitable victory. Microsoft can do nothing but shamefacedly admit their blatant bias here and comply with your demands.
Re:Trolling the blog-whore (Score:3, Funny)
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Exactly! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shocked, I am shocked! (Score:3, Funny)
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Uppsala (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Trolling the blog-whore (Score:5, Funny)
>> Two wrongs don't make a right... or do they?
No, but three lefts do.
bunkum and hogwash?! (Score:4, Funny)
I say pish-posh to that!
/Mike
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Re:In India and many other countries (Score:3, Funny)
Re:it's not deception if it's true :P (Score:3, Funny)
Thread hijacked for comic relief (Score:5, Funny)
Right, I'm hijacking this troll to get eyeballs. Let's all post anecdotes about our funny/stupid bosses.
So we have this website, and a few Sundays ago the database that drives it fell over. It was around 1.30am. Around 11.30pm just before going to bed I decided to check my work email, just in case there was anything I needed to know for Monday. Turns out I needed to know our website was down all day. Of course, I have Nagios monitoring this, but since it was a weekend I didn't check my work email and never knew.
We happened to have a meeting the next day, so I mentioned that the site had been down for nearly 24 hours. Naturally nobody knew, because it was on a Sunday. So I said I wanted to get a GSM modem so I could receive SMS notification if important things went South, and after assuring the boss it'd only be a few hundred dollars he said okay.
Later a colleague (who was going to actually get quotes and buy it) told me he'd been asked to defer it. We had security auditors coming in soon, and the boss wanted to get their okay, because he thought it was a security risk. Bit strange I thought, but fair enough; we're hooking a wireless modem up to a server on our internal network, I can see how that can be perceived as a risk. Easy enough to explain how it wouldn't be possible to access the server using it.
But no, that wasn't the risk. The risk was we were using Nagios. It's open source!, he says. Doesn't that mean it's less secure?
Wow. Just wow. I'm disappointed I heard this 2nd hand, otherwise I would've been in there with a "1998 called; they want their FUD back". He might not have understood, but it would've amused me a great deal. And that's what matters, after all.
So it just goes to show there are still people buying the Microsoft-styled spin hook, line and sinker. I sure hope he doesn't discover the Brocade SAN switch we use runs Linux. Or our ESX servers. He might have a heart attack or something. Maybe it's okay if there's some proprietary code on it, though?
Bonus anecdote: my colleague also wanted to get pricing on sides for the racks in our server room, in order to improve airflow (they're completely open at the moment). The same boss said we don't need them, because hot air won't be coming out the back of the servers. It appears our boss feels that if cold air goes in the front, then cold air ought to come out the back. Sadly my colleague was too awed by this to press further, so we'll probably never know the full thought process behind this.
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