Re: Combating Microsoft FUD.

Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> writes:

You call up a random IT company — they are a Windows shop. The reality is that there are more Windows shops than Linux shops.

From his perspective, it’s about redundancy. He can throw out one lot of IT people, replace them with another lot, and they will still be able to support the system.

The term for this is "fungible", which everyone should use more often because it sounds like Dr. Seuss made it up.

He can’t find a Linux shop just by walking up the street or finding the first IT company in the Yellow Pages.

Cyber gets half a dozen cold calls a week by people doing that. I guess whichever dodgy SEO we're paying is doing their job.