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by **Daero** » Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:06:22

http://web.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/nt_to_unix.html
Strategic Information for IT Executives and Managers

A white paper by Jon C. LeBlanc IT Manager, (Hewlett Packard Certified
IT Professional, Sun Microsystems Certified Solaris System
Administrator)

Executive Summary
This paper and site are intended to provide today's leading
Information Technology executives, managers, system administrators,
and purchasers with clear, brief, dispassionate, and factual arguments
for migrating some or all of their corporate computing resources away
from the Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP, and .NET Server operating
systems to an attractive, time-tested, ever-more-popular environment:
UNIX/ Linux.

by **Luser - short for linux use** » Tue, 11 Feb 2003 04:27:33

Quote:> http://web.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/nt_to_unix.html
> Strategic Information for IT Executives and Managers

> A white paper by Jon C. LeBlanc IT Manager, (Hewlett Packard Certified
> IT Professional, Sun Microsystems Certified Solaris System
> Administrator)

> Executive Summary
> This paper and site are intended to provide today's leading
> Information Technology executives, managers, system administrators,
> and purchasers with clear, brief, dispassionate, and factual arguments
> for migrating some or all of their corporate computing resources away
> from the Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP, and .NET Server operating
> systems to an attractive, time-tested, ever-more-popular environment:
> UNIX/ Linux.

<quote>To wit, Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer has described how the
Microsoft Office software suite is destined to become the conduit that will
connect end users with .NET server and network resources. Office is being
rewritten to behave as a "relational XML store" in which Microsoft intends
to bring together, in Ballmer's words, "...one storage system instead of
doing HTML, the file system, the database system, the e-mail system, they
all today have their own search to manage, their own query, their own
programmability, etc., and that is part of the thing that stands between
getting Office to be a front end for payroll processing or decision support
or workflow applications." </quote>

Scary shit.

by **Lin?nu** » Tue, 11 Feb 2003 05:15:01

While watching the eternal hourglass, Luser - short for linux user assayed this pronouncement:

Quote:> <quote>To wit, Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer has described how the
> Microsoft Office software suite is destined to become the conduit that will
> connect end users with .NET server and network resources. Office is being
> rewritten to behave as a "relational XML store" in which Microsoft intends
> to bring together, in Ballmer's words, "...one storage system instead of
> doing HTML, the file system, the database system, the e-mail system, they
> all today have their own search to manage, their own query, their own
> programmability, etc., and that is part of the thing that stands between
> getting Office to be a front end for payroll processing or decision support
> or workflow applications." </quote>

> Scary shit.

Put all your eggs in one basket and let the boars guard it.

--
Living large and loving Linux!

by **Daero** » Tue, 11 Feb 2003 05:29:21

>While watching the eternal hourglass, Luser - short for linux user assayed this pronouncement:

>> <quote>To wit, Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer has described how the
>> Microsoft Office software suite is destined to become the conduit that will
>> connect end users with .NET server and network resources. Office is being
>> rewritten to behave as a "relational XML store" in which Microsoft intends
>> to bring together, in Ballmer's words, "...one storage system instead of
>> doing HTML, the file system, the database system, the e-mail system, they
>> all today have their own search to manage, their own query, their own
>> programmability, etc., and that is part of the thing that stands between
>> getting Office to be a front end for payroll processing or decision support
>> or workflow applications." </quote>

>> Scary shit.

>Put all your eggs in one basket and let the boars guard it.

So as well as turning a glorified graphical interface into an
enterprise class OS they are now trying to foist a glorified word
processer onto us and call it our conduit to the Internet.

It's funny and tragic at the same time. Of course the fact he's
spouting so much hot ( virtual ) air accounts for them spending so
much time in Washington lobbying for privileged treatment for MS. The
product obviously cannot compete on a level playing field.

by **QUAD** » Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:47:27

> >While watching the eternal hourglass, Luser - short for linux user

assayed this pronouncement:

Quote:
> >> <quote>To wit, Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer has described how the
> >> Microsoft Office software suite is destined to become the conduit that
will
> >> connect end users with .NET server and network resources. Office is
being
> >> rewritten to behave as a "relational XML store" in which Microsoft
intends
> >> to bring together, in Ballmer's words, "...one storage system instead
of
> >> doing HTML, the file system, the database system, the e-mail system,
they
> >> all today have their own search to manage, their own query, their own
> >> programmability, etc., and that is part of the thing that stands
between
> >> getting Office to be a front end for payroll processing or decision
support
> >> or workflow applications." </quote>

> >> Scary shit.

> >Put all your eggs in one basket and let the boars guard it.

> So as well as turning a glorified graphical interface into an
> enterprise class OS they are now trying to foist a glorified word
> processer onto us and call it our conduit to the Internet.

It makes sense (at least to ms) that office / xdocs should be the logical
replacement for browser based applications. They want to control the web
and they need a reason for corporations to upgrade office. The arm twisting
of licensing 6.0 or die failed for the most part. The stupid companies that
signed up, what are they getting? Office and server products really are on
a 3 to 4 year dev cycle whereas the licensing is renewable every 2 or 3
years meaning you're likely going to give ms money for nothing.

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