Tuesday, December 03, 2002

MS servers cheaper to operate than Linux?! IDC has sold their soul with this report, just out. They key is that it's a "sponsored report", meaning that MS paid for the research and the foregone conclusion. I remember the TCO wars of 1994-1995, wherein NT replaced Novell as the defacto network operating system platform in corporate America. This time the MS foe is a little tougher - a federation of companies with IBM at the front. It'll be an interesting fight. 7:38:36 AM

Also found via Doc Searls: Geekmaids. I'm not sure what to think about this. First reaction, cool. Second reaction...why? Simply a result of the dot-bomb? If so, they give a whole new meaning to "...we also do Windows". 5:05:57 AM

This definitely makes my Christmas list. 4:48:45 AM

From Doc, just heard the new acronym that describes the base technical architecture for cost-effective systems: LAMP, for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and (Perl or Python or PHP).  I find it interesting that we're now in the age where we specify the software platform rather than the hardware - it wasn't so when I started out, at the dawn of computing. 4:37:39 AM

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