[CCID News] On October 27, in the same day, at Novell and Dell announced a important Linux contract, Microsoft's CEO Ballmer issued a memo, claiming that Windows has the advantage of exceeding Linux.
In this memo, Ballmer claims that Novell, Red Hat and IBM and other Linux vendors have exceeded technical services and support, product warranty, and licensing margins.
Ballmer said: "There is no doubt that customers should be beneficial from the IT industry of healthy competition. Now customers have better opportunities than ever, they can choose the right product after fully assessment." He also said: " Clearly, Windows provides a lower overall cost cost than Linux. The number of security vulnerabilities in Windows is relatively small, and Windows is much more response to security vulnerabilities than Linux. Microsoft is also better in intellectual property protection. other products."
In order to support his argument, Ballmer also cited the findings of Forrester, Yankee and Meta Group and local customers.
Ballmer also said that REGAL Entertainment has become a red hat Linux customer in 2001, but later reused Microsoft's platform, because it is more satisfied with the WINDOWS.
Ballmer also stated in the memo that for customers who are based on UNIX ERP work tasks such as SAP and Renke, Windows should be used to save server costs.
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