[osol-mktg] Calling all bloggers!

[Dennis Clarke]

On 12/2/05, Ben Rockwood <benr at cuddletech.com> wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen, we need some help... a lot of help.  The news of

I am in the process of writing a scorced earth blog.

My email is getting filled up with crud and FUD from Red Hat, IBM and
Novell about making the switch from expensive proprietary UNIX to more
cost effective Linux.

What a pile of ...

In any case, no blog worth reading can be done without hard data.  So
I am talking with sales people and getting quotes for the big move
from Solaris to Linux and looking at the costs.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Premium for x86, AMD64 & Intel EM64T,
Intel Itanium, and POWER)  	$2,499.00  !!

The cost of the support contract for a single socket system blows them
out of the water already.  But then again, I already blogged that.

Oh .. and my love for UltraSparc based servers is getting me nowhere
fast with RedHat.  Its like I am speaking a whole foreign language.  I
am asking them why their open system Red Hat Enterprise Linux will run
on IBM POWER but not on Sun UltraSparc ?  Why ?   Oh .. I see, you're
full of crap.  That's why.

Dennis
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