Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores is contracting with Microsoft and Novell - Microsoft's preferred Linux partner - to build out the company's Web operations, according to a Wal-Mart executive. On Tuesday, Microsoft and Novell are expected to announce that Wal-Mart is the latest customer to purchase both Microsoft software and support certificates for Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
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Member since:2005-07-06
you can be held accountable, that's why businesses practice due diligence before adopting technologies. If they can't prove that they researched beyond the sales rhetoric the other company fed them, they will be held responsible.
Agreed. But political bickering on message boards or blog sites doesn't exactly factor into a businesses due diligence. It's more along the lines of, does Software Package A do what we need it to do? How does it compare to Software Package B? Not what does linuxrules_microsoftsux431@gpl4life.org think about Software Package A?
Yes, that's a bit over the top, but you get my point.
Member since:2005-07-24
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It's more along the lines of, does Software Package A do what we need it to do? How does it compare to Software Package B? Not what does linuxrules_microsoftsux431@gpl4life.org think about Software Package A?
Yes, that's a bit over the top, but you get my point.
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I disagree. That is not at all over the top. It's what we see here on OSNews every day. ;-)
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2006-05-22
you can be held accountable, that's why businesses practice due diligence before adopting technologies. If they can't prove that they researched beyond the sales rhetoric the other company fed them, they will be held responsible.