I've just read through the white paper, and it is without doubt one of the silliest I've ever read. For example, if someone could explain to me what Lower cost of procurement: Appliances powered by Windows are typically cheaper to procure than a general purpose server. One of the key reasons is that general purpose servers are designed and optimized to be functionally flexible - for example, they can act as application servers (that is e-mail or database), Web servers, file servers, print servers, DNS and DHCP servers, or domain controllers. Appliances based on Windows are designed to address specific solutions like Web, file, and so on, and as such are optimized for the solution and do not use all the features and flexibility of a general purpose server OS. This usually results in a lower cost of procurement. means, I'd be interested. I've read it three times, and I'm still not certain what they're trying to say (all applications based on linux must use all functions in the OS??? Windows can do less, and so is more powerful??? What are they trying to say?) On the other hand, the paper is clearly directed at a management audience, so there is a real danger it might be taken seriously. Perhaps someone ought to write a refutation On Saturday 16 June 2001 22:28, StarTux wrote:
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/embedded/sak/sakcomp.asp
Matt
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