[wplug] postgazette article was ( linux embedded appliances?)

[John Harrold]

Sometime in January Drew from Zhrodague assaulted the keyboard and produced:

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| 	http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04022/264254.stm
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| 	I think this is the story someone was talking about.
| 
| 	Ian James seems to have his own head jammed into his ass, but then 
| again we know that not much (any at all?) of Red Square Systems' business 
| is Linux. They seem hell bent on charging their customers as much as 
| absolutely possible, whether RS benefits from this or not.
| 
| 	"I never sit down with customers whose burning question of the
| moment is whether we should go to Linux," said Iam James, chief executive
| officer of IT consultant Red Square Systems. "You can save money by
| avoiding licensing costs, but there aren't as many applications. With
| Microsoft products, it's easier to find more qualified people to deal with
| them."
| 
| 	Obviously, their definition of "qualified" means Microsoft 
| Certified. I woner what applications he's talking about that don't run on 
| Linux -- Citrix? 

well i am a microsoft bigot, but i don't think this article is all that
bad. while the quote above does appear in the article, it's not really
representative of the entire article. i would estimate that the portion
deadicated to this guy is less than 1/3 of the article. 

part of a journalists job is to provide a complete, or shall i say
balanced, story. i don't think it's wrong of her to get info from both
sides. if the stuff above comprised 90% of the story, then i think people
would be justified in feeling slighted. sure the ms consultant is pimpin'
off fud-what would you expect. a story that provides both sides of the
story is more likely to be taken seriously than one which considers only
the virtues of linux.

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