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    'Unbiased' M$ research into Linux???

    Microsoft admits Linux research is met with skepticism
    http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/...076468,00.html

    While IT administrators and managers generally turn up their noses at
    vendor-sponsored research, they may actually get something out of the
    latest Microsoft-backed study -- and it has nothing to do with whether
    Windows is better.
    Question is, can M$ be trusted to give us trully unbiased results?
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    to be honest even if MS do a %100 imparcial portition of reseach people will find it hard to trust it or even care about it because of the "TCO linux/ms fraud reports" that MS paid to have done.

    To be fair its very hard to trust any suppliers comments on other peoples products as its all corperate

    For example HP used to have a product called "Blue Stone" which was a middleware platform, it was always quoted as "better than BEA weblogic" which Sun was in bed with, Then Sun / BEA had a spat and Sun developed its own middleware server which is quoted as "better than BEA" - then HP picked up the dropped Sun/BEA partnership and dropped bluestone, and quoted it as "because we partnered a company that knows how to make a superior middleware platform"


    corperate alliances and deals count for more than any research or product qualities.

    The best examples are your own of colleges experiences.

    independants such as slashdot/the register are good for info, but even a lot of their research posts come from independent research companies that are commishened by companies like MS to do research in their favour
    It is Inevitable.....


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