'Not the sharpest of knives' - praise heaped on Linux study author

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Linux 'not just for power users'

Linux 'not just for power users' 04/06/2005 07:28 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 6 2005 12:03PM GMT

Study: Linux the Safest Out There

Study: Linux the Safest Out There 12/17/2004 06:27 PM
A study says Linux contains far fewer bugs than most commercial software.

Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability
Study

Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability
Study 04/18/2004 11:00 PM

Study: Linux may infringe on 283 patents

Study: Linux may infringe on 283 patents 08/02/2004 05:36 PM
A study funded by Open Source Risk Management LLC found that Linux may be infringing on 283 software patents, 27 of them held by Microsoft.

Study: Windows Cheaper Than Linux

Study: Windows Cheaper Than Linux 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
A new study conducted by IDC has found that Windows 2000 represents a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Linux over a five-year period. Though the study was funded by Microsoft, some independent industry analysts believe it has merit. Peter Kastner, chief research officer at Aberdeen Group, said he generally agrees with the findings.

Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says
balanced study

Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says
balanced study 05/17/2004 03:07 PM

Study Finds Windows More Reliable than
Linux

Study Finds Windows More Reliable than
Linux 04/06/2005 11:56 AM
A Microsoft-sponsored study finds Windows Server 2003 is more reliable and robust and allows IT administrators to execute various tasks more quickly than those using Red Advanced Server 3.0 running on the same hardware.

BibleTime - a bible study tool for linux

BibleTime - a bible study tool for linux 12/29/2003 07:20 AM
BibleTime 1.4

Study: Microsoft patents could threaten
Linux

Study: Microsoft patents could threaten
Linux 08/02/2004 08:00 AM
A total of 283 registered software patents, including 27 held by Microsoft Corp. could conceivably be used as the basis of patent lawsuits against the Linux kernel, according to a study of U.S. software patents scheduled to be released Monday.

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Linux Adoption Stalls, Study Says
(TechWeb)

Linux Adoption Stalls, Study Says
(TechWeb) 06/05/2005 10:59 PM
TechWeb - Linux adoption may be "hitting a wall," as use of the open-source operating system fell over a nine-month period, a quarterly survey of companies shows.

Linux helps medical research: a case
study

Linux helps medical research: a case
study 12/29/2004 11:38 AM

Study Shows Windows Beats Linux on
Security

Study Shows Windows Beats Linux on
Security 06/24/2005 07:24 PM
Security is one of the chief concerns of IT decision makers. Along with purchase price, interoperability, maintainability and deployment costs, security is a critical factor in determining which platform to deploy across an enterprise or to serve a particular role.

Case Study: Hentzenwerke Publishing
switches to Linux

Case Study: Hentzenwerke Publishing
switches to Linux 06/07/2004 07:14 AM
I've been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional seven times. I received the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. I've been publishing Visual FoxPro books since 1998. So it may come rather as a surprise to hear that I've been converting my entire company to Linux over the last couple of years.

Study questions Torvalds' role in Linux
creation

Study questions Torvalds' role in Linux
creation 05/20/2004 01:11 AM
CNET May 20 2004 5:34AM GMT

Microsoft touts latest Windows v. Linux
study

Microsoft touts latest Windows v. Linux
study 04/05/2005 11:38 PM
Blog: Another Microsoft-funded study has been released that says Windows is better than Linux. This time the issue is reliability. ...

Linux and Security at Salem Hospital: A
Case Study

Linux and Security at Salem Hospital: A
Case Study 01/05/2005 06:32 AM
Salem Hospital of Oregon switches from barebones OS projects to commercialized Linux for its security.

Alien puppet Linus swiped Linux from
SCO, says balanced study

Alien puppet Linus swiped Linux from
SCO, says balanced study 05/17/2004 07:24 AM
Well, almost...

Microsoft distances itself from Alexis
de Tocqueville Institution Linux study

Microsoft distances itself from Alexis
de Tocqueville Institution Linux study 06/15/2004 10:35 PM
Microsoft is distancing itself from an Alexis de Tocqueville Instution study which attempted to cast doubts on the origins of Linux.

Mid-Sized Companies Not Interested in
Linux - Microsoft Still Dominates, Study
Says

Mid-Sized Companies Not Interested in
Linux - Microsoft Still Dominates, Study
Says 04/06/2005 02:25 AM
ActiveWin.com Apr 6 2005 6:34AM GMT

Study shows Microsoft, Linux costs
neck-and-neck

Study shows Microsoft, Linux costs
neck-and-neck 04/05/2005 04:12 AM
ActiveWin.com Apr 5 2005 8:53AM GMT

Study Shows Microsoft, Linux
Neck-And-Neck (Reuters)

Study Shows Microsoft, Linux
Neck-And-Neck (Reuters) 04/04/2005 03:10 PM
Reuters - Most U.S. businesses say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment, according to a new Yankee Group study released on Monday.

Study Shows Microsoft, Linux
Neck-And-Neck

Study Shows Microsoft, Linux
Neck-And-Neck 04/04/2005 07:27 PM
Most U.S. businesses say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment, according to a new Yankee Group study released on Monday. The main cost difference, said Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio, is determined by the amount of time it takes to develop applications or ensure the security of servers, the networked computers that store data, crunch numbers and serve up Web pages.

"What we found is that costs are not really dependent on the underlying functionality in the core operating system," DiDio said. In the independent study, 88 percent of respondents said that the quality, performance and reliability of Windows was equal to or better than Linux. Linux, which can be copied and modified freely, unlike proprietary software such as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system, has been locked in competition for the last several years against Microsoft's Windows Server software for a share of the corporate market. In most cases, both Linux and Windows are growing at the expense of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix-based servers, which were instrumental in the growth of the Internet during the 1990s.

News source: Reuters

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Praise Murphy

Praise Murphy 01/29/2003 05:05 PM
Joel has been battling computer problems, and so have I. The short version is that I now have a new...

Praise be to the CD burner

Praise be to the CD burner 01/23/2004 03:54 AM
Now is the golden age of compilations and mixes, thanks to computer technology. We should all be grateful.

In Praise Of Automator

In Praise Of Automator 04/18/2005 02:02 AM

Automator brings back the programming to the masses. By NonlinearMatters

in praise of the chillow

in praise of the chillow 07/21/2004 02:44 PM
the chillow is a favorite around our household as well

In Praise of Psyco

In Praise of Psyco 04/22/2004 03:56 AM
It may be madness to praise Python on a PHP blog, but I just have to add a pointer to one of the most amazing pieces of software I have every seen. Pysco is an JIT compiler for Python that is (nearly) totally transparent. We are using Python for some data mining apps, and the following 2 lines speeded up our code by 250%:

import psyco
psyco.full()

There is an even more amazing post where the author of Psyco discusses Python is faster than C because a JIT compiler can better handle polymorphic data types.

Apparently Pysco will be rolled into the official Python release when it becomes more mature and cross-platform (it runs well only on x86 at the moment). It would be wonderful if PHP moves in this direction in the long run, whether by running on top of Parrot or another JIT.

in praise of the butt

in praise of the butt 08/17/2004 01:43 PM
journalism really is threatened by blogging

In praise of outsourcing

In praise of outsourcing 01/19/2004 03:04 PM
What's good for the economy is good for you. Oh yes

In Praise of Evolvable Systems

In Praise of Evolvable Systems 02/12/2003 01:04 AM
HTTP and HTML are the Whoopee Cushion and Joy Buzzer of Internet protocols, only comprehensible as elaborate practical jokes. For anyone who has tried to accomplish anything serious on the Web, it's pretty obvious that of the various implementations of a worldwide hypertext protocol, we have the worst one possible.

Except, of course, for all the others. -- Clay Shirky

It's also good to reread Worse is Better by Richard Gabriel at this point.

"zeldman.oo9"

"John McCain's praise"

"John McCain's praise" 07/06/2004 08:07 PM

In praise of Apache documentation

In praise of Apache documentation 03/06/2004 02:01 AM

I spent much of today upgrading a distinctly hairy Apache 1.3 server to Apache 2.0 as part of a routine OS upgrade. It certainly wasn't plain sailing - I still have a few crinkles to iron out - but that's more down to the weirdness of the existing configuration than any problems with Apache 2.

Apache 2 is a beautifully designed piece of software. The documentation is superb - the migration guide proved invaluable but the real gem was the direct ive quick reference. Armed with the quick reference and Firefox's Type Ahead Find the previously inpenetrable httpd.conf file becomes a living tutorial on the wild and wonderful ways of Apache configuration. A wise old sysadmin once told me that the best way of learning Linux is to ls /bin and run man <command> for every command in there - then do the same thing for /sbin, then /usr/bin and so on until you run out of things to read. The same appears to be true of Apache configuration directives.

In Praise of Heady Growth

In Praise of Heady Growth 05/14/2004 04:50 AM
Business Week May 14 2004 9:06AM GMT

More (Fuzzy) Praise for phpPatterns.com

More (Fuzzy) Praise for phpPatterns.com 01/08/2003 09:03 AM

In praise of a seditious beverage

In praise of a seditious beverage 01/07/2004 05:41 PM
Plus ça change, The Economist on Coffee-Houses. Far more controversial than the coffee-houses' functions as centres of scientific, literary and business exchange, however, was their potential as centres of political dissent. Coffee's reputation as a seditious beverage goes back at...

more effusive praise for curbed

more effusive praise for curbed 06/01/2004 12:52 AM
steven explains what's great about lockhart's new site

praise the lord and give thanks

praise the lord and give thanks 09/24/2004 12:02 PM
SPREE: An Escape from Reality - music by Ethan Persoff, made from old records, bizarre noise instruments, circuit bent toys and other unusual sounds.

in praise of gmail's technology

in praise of gmail's technology 07/09/2004 12:12 AM
as always, the whining overshadowed some truly impressive coding

Sing Chiquita's Praise

Sing Chiquita's Praise 02/18/2004 02:52 PM
After a rough patch, Chiquita follows through with more good results.
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