Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Tue, 03
> Jun 2008 00:45:45 +0100 <badeh5-s3l.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> "Recently analysts have come out in support of Vista ... claiming
>> organizations could miss out on important business benefits"
>
> Like being locked into Palladium. ;-)
>
>> What a load of BS. What "business benefits" will an *OS* bring
>> anyone, much less a totally dysfunctional OS like Vista?
>
> Well, there is the issue of common protocol/API. Applications expect
> Windows, and Windows begets more applications as it's the majority
> solution.
And in this regard Vista fails miserably compared to XP.
As for platforms, one can standardise one's software stack on rubbish
like Exchange; Access; MSSQL; MS Office; Windows Server <x>; and any
number of other slow; bloated; insecure; unstable; non-interoperable;
quirky; unpredictable; Microsoft Slopware, or one can just as easily
standardise on LAMP; OpenOffice; Evolution Data Server; etc.
Unless all these /business/ systems somehow need to be compatible with
Grand Theft Auto and Tiger Woods Golf, for some particular reason.
Well OK, they would get to miss out on all that Malware if they chose a
FOSS stack. Being in a spam botnet may give them a sense of "community".
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K.
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