The art of ignorance

December 16, 2007

I came across this possibly old article by Microsoft where they compare Linux to Windows. The article is found at the following address Windows Linux Comparison.

Here is part of the article:

Redhat Yum

According to Microsoft, an updater tool isn’t good enough because it only “updates”. Of course Microsoft isn’t attacking Redhat personally, but rather the use of Linux as a workstation. 

If we are talking about software deployment, it seems Microsoft has decided to ignore Redhat Network and Novell’s ZENworks. If we are talking about ease of system administration and configuration, Yast2 is obviously a myth according to Microsoft. Even on Ubuntu, the home desktop oriented Linux distribution, you simply apt-get install one package and you have a mailserver. It is extremely easy to badly judge other people’s products when when we choose understand much about them. This allows Microsoft to bad mouth Linux in front of its customers.

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