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July 3, 2008

In January of this year, some people criticized Microsoft’s comparison claims which allege to give unbiased points of distinction between Microsoft’s server products and the broad range of Linux distributions readily available today.

You can find many case studies on these claims relating to genuine real-world business implementations and technology platform choices. For its part, the Linux community is only interested in good, reasoned arguments as to why a pragmatist would choose one technology over another for any given application.

Nevertheless, the first case study on well-known Australian entertainment company Video Ezy hardly inspired any confidence. There was no real battle between the two operating system contenders.

There was some feedback that complained the events of the case study had happened years prior, although it is still available on Microsoft’s website as a case study pretending to support Windows Server 2008 over Linux...

Thus, if one returns to the comparison site and selects the very latest case study, opinions might differ substantially. This time web host HiChina were in the hot seat and Microsoft detailed the benefits Windows Server 2008 offered them over their previous Windows Server 2003 environment.

Sharp minds will have noticed they upgraded from Windows to Windows (!) And indeed, the case study would have served a good purpose if it were used to promote why existing customers ought to upgrade in the first place!

As a comparison between Microsoft and Linux, many agree that it served little point.

HiChina’s case study disappeared off the front page of the Microsoft comparison site. Readers pointed this out and you could still get to it via the direct link. A couple of days later it was gone from there, this time for good.

It’s time now to check out Microsoft’s case studies again. Especially because just maybe this time they’ve sharpened their act and landed a glove...

Australian radio network Aus Stereo dumped Linux because of how troublesome it was. Reading the case study beyond the headline one can discover it was actually Novell Netware that was the troublesome component. Some wrote to Microsoft's PR Deptartment to question how they believed these stories genuinely presented a comparison and whether they were average stories coupled with deceitful headlines.

In the end, none that wrote Microsoft ever received any reply and are still waiting...

Source: Tech Bloggers.

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