{"id":244,"date":"2005-11-17T02:47:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T10:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=28"},"modified":"2005-11-17T02:47:47","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T10:47:47","slug":"understanding-the-motives-to-microsofts-get-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the motives to Microsoft&#8217;s Get the Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Adelstein has a <a href=\"http:\/\/lxer.com\/module\/newswire\/view\/47811\/index.html\">discussion<\/a> on Microsoft's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserversystem\/facts\/default.mspx\">Get the Facts<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In case you think you've seen it elsewhere, it's also covered at <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/linux_unix\/Linux_News_Questions_Microsoft_s_Need_for_a_\">digg.com<\/a> and there's a shorter piece at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/wlg\/8489?CMP=OTC-0O724Z062301\">O'Reilly's Linux Dev Center<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I've talked about the problems with the approach Microsoft is using on Get the Facts before. Some of the points Microsoft makes are perfectly valid - but only from a very specific (and often unrealistic) position. Therein lies the major problem with the approach and the TCO studies which it uses to support the point of view.<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1325\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1325\" dc:title=\"Understanding the motives to Microsoft's Get the Facts\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1325\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=28\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Adelstein has a <a href=\"http:\/\/lxer.com\/module\/newswire\/view\/47811\/index.html\">discussion<\/a> on Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserversystem\/facts\/default.mspx\">Get the Facts<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In case you think you&#8217;ve seen it elsewhere, it&#8217;s also covered at <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/linux_unix\/Linux_News_Questions_Microsoft_s_Need_for_a_\">digg.com<\/a> and there&#8217;s a shorter piece at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/wlg\/8489?CMP=OTC-0O724Z062301\">O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Linux Dev Center<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve talked about the problems with the approach Microsoft is using on Get the Facts before. Some of the points Microsoft makes are perfectly valid &#8211; but only from a very specific (and often unrealistic) position. Therein lies the major problem with the approach and the TCO studies which it uses to support the point of view.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1325\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1325\" dc:title=\"Understanding the motives to Microsoft's Get the Facts\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1325\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=28\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}