RE: Microsoft thwarted again

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The biggest difference, though, is that unlike videotape quality, which
was a consumer decision based purely on the customer's experience,
things like reliability and security can be "spun", as we see here in
this list.  Statistics show clearly that the iSeries is far more
reliable than Windows, but MS salespeople quickly muddy the waters with
the old cluster argument.  And even non-IT folks know that Windows is
full of security holes, yet there are people who insist that a properly
patched and configured and locked down Windows machine is comparable to
an iSeries.

How is a consumer to know?  Unless someone is out there holding up the
banner of the iSeries, the consumer has to believe what the consultants
tell him, and there are plenty of consultants willing to tell him that
Windows is "good enough".

Joe


> From: McKown, John
> 
> This is valid comparison. Windows, like VHS, is inferior, but both
less
> expensive and "good enough". I was a beta user back then. The quality
of
> my tapes was much better than the VHS of the time. But VHS won due to
it
> being "good enough" and less expensive. Exactly like Wintel vs iSeries
> (or zSeries or pSeries). We are looking at a zSeries to Wintel. The
> reason given is exactly that: "The zSeries is simply too expensive and
> Window's reliability is sufficient for our needs."