Archive for April, 2008

Microsoft offers lower costs than Linux

Friday, April 18th, 2008

JerryLees response to: 

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-09-17-013-26-NW-DP-SV&tbovrmode=1

 

JerryLee: This is a rather short sighted move on the part of RedSherriff, Id say.

So, they have managed to save a few measly pounds on software licensesover a short term, and they are gloating about savings ?

Waittill the end of the month, when it becomes obvious that this radicalshift from a stable, integrated, GUI enabled MS-SQLServer to someshareware database system opens up a big set of new costs - as all theusers of this database need to be re-trained.

In the case ofshareware databases such as postgresql and mysql (both cheap clones ofthe original SQL, invented by Bill Gates in his Mum’s garage during hisyears at college - heck mysql even had to steal the name from MSSQL),you will find that there is no GUI at all. This makes them impossiblydifficult to operate - the re-training costs will be huge. Justthe other day, I helped an enterprise client do some work in MSSQL -they had to import LITERALLY DOZENS of customer records from an SQLdatabase into a spreadsheet. We managed to do this quite easily byclicking the mouse for a few hours together, setting the ODBC driversup using heaps of helpful GUI tools. We then managed to get thespreadsheet to AUTOMATICALLY TOTAL all of the postcodes for thecustomer records, and even calculate the AVERAGE of the postcodes.

Try doing THAT with your little shareware database !! Hmmph !

Face it - Microsoft offers lower costs than Linux, as has been PROVENtime after time. When will these shareware guys just give it up ?   

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Coincidence ? I dont think so

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Coincidence ? I dont think so
Every gentleman in the computing IT industry is well aware of the looming date for the end of life of Windows XP.

By far the most successful operating system ever devised for highly powered computing equipment.

After this date, all computing equipment at the high end of the scale will be required, legally, to make the upgrade to Vista.

Is it any wonder then that both Google and Yahoo are now in a bind, where they find that all those machines which power their internet infrastructure, will now have to be swapped out and upgraded to a more contemporary Vista platform ?

Google, with its hundreds of thousands of computers, will need …. hundreds of thousands of technicians to perform these upgrades, and yet, since they have a consistent history of bad-mouthing Microsoft and and playing ‘I am Better than Thou’ with them for so many years … Google finds that their staff are now underskilled and as obsolete as their aging Windows XP machines.

Because of their company’s poor attitude towards the hand that feeds them (Microsoft), Google staff have been suffering without access to the premium MSDN services. Their skills have rotted on the vine like so many bad potatoes.

So - I ask you - is it any coincidence that both Google and Yahoo (yahoo being in a similar position to google thanks to their poor behaviour) - are now crawling towards the dinner table with their paws outstretched looking for a white knight to help them in their time of distress ?

The business plan de-jour in the computing IT industry has always been :

- To develop a best of breed product
- Get the market to take notice
- Partner with Microsoft, and then be bought out.
- Profit

So it comes as no surprise to me to see both Google and Yahoo scrambling to be the sweetest and most polite child at the christmas table just as Grandpa reaches out to cut the cake.

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