Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 08, 2002 01:22 PM
I used the word "alleged" because of enron type fudging of numbers. The numbers comes from press releases and unaudited sources.
There are better ways to get increased reliability, greater flexibility, faster deployment on multiple platforms --- just write your apps to be fully posix compliant on a bunch of safety/mission critical POSIX certified RTOS.
I don't question that there might be huge savings by deploying linux. But the savings comes from the IT side, switching servers from unix to linux, running linux/beowulf clusters instead of buying a cray supercomputer for thermal/stress analysis.
What I question is the extent of linux deployment on the actual factory floors and the extent Microsoft is getting hurt by it. It's like amazon.com switching from unix to linux and saving 17 million dollars, it hurt SUN, not microsoft.
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Re:Very clever FUD. Now the truth.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 08, 2002 01:22 PMThere are better ways to get increased reliability, greater flexibility, faster deployment on multiple platforms --- just write your apps to be fully posix compliant on a bunch of safety/mission critical POSIX certified RTOS.
I don't question that there might be huge savings by deploying linux. But the savings comes from the IT side, switching servers from unix to linux, running linux/beowulf clusters instead of buying a cray supercomputer for thermal/stress analysis.
What I question is the extent of linux deployment on the actual factory floors and the extent Microsoft is getting hurt by it. It's like amazon.com switching from unix to linux and saving 17 million dollars, it hurt SUN, not microsoft.
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