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Restoring justice in the war of operating systems

Regardless how you come here you are usually a UNIX advocate or user of Microsoft OS and products who appreciates products of Microsoft.
I myself have been using Windows since 3.1 and NT since 3.5 and along with it bunch of related products like SQL, IIS, VB etc.
Through my career I have been also a user of UNIX, UNIX clones so I'm not completely dilettante in UNIX either (I have studied and passed certification for Sun Solaris Certified Admin). I did program CGI in Perl and did run Apache, I did install Linux and Solaris, I do have MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA certifications from Microsoft.
Why this site existent? Because I want my voice to be heard out there between myriad of anti-Microsoft sites that there are actually people who stand by Microsoft products and I intend to give you enough information so you would be able to make decision Windows vs UNIX with some facts in hand. This site is not about whether unix sucks or windows sucks but about giving you choice of making decision on your own about pros and cons of Windows.
I do have to make distinction between reputable UNIX admins and UNIX zealots or fanatics with common hatred for Microsoft and their products. According to recent survey (link) one of the factors of Linux being introduced in existing IT environment is IT managers who want to move their company to Linux because they are open-source enthusiasts and implementation is based on 'I love Linux' or 'I hate Microsoft'.
I want to promote fair competition between OSes based on real facts but not on hearsay or gossip or some other sort of "common knowledge" which usually surrounds Windows or UNIX. All materials in this website have corresponding reference to sources of information, as opposed with majority of anti-Microsoft websites which resort to insults and ungrounded lies and misdirection.
I have seen too many times when UNIX advocates trying to push their favorite OS reasoning not on advantages or disadvantages of either OS but on pure hatred for Microsoft and all of their products in general. Let the real facts flow! Read through the site for things which you did not know or which were deliberately misrepresented by UNIX advocates.
Pardon my English (it's my second language), spelling and grammar mistakes, I hope that I would still be able to make a point here.

 

News: Mac OS X had 5x time more vulnerabilities then Windows XP + Vista in 2007. (Source)

 

News: Latest study from IDC shows that Linux is loosing ground to Windows in 2007 (Source)

 

News: Apache has only 10% gap advantage over IIS (lowest since IIS debuted in 1996) (Source)

 

 

 

News: Forum is now open for people who would like to flame or comment or praise or abuse... http://groups.google.com/group/Windows-vs-UNIX/

 

P.S. All opinions expressed are purely mine and mine only.

 



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