[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/7/2024 8:05 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/7/2024 7:10 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 16:24:13 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/7/2024 4:11 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 13:21:05 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> Unless hard evidence to the contrary ...
>>>>
>>>> The report from the city council itself, that there was a net gain in
>>>> price/benefits.
>>>
>>> Counting what they counted.
>>>
>>> It is not necessarily a complete picture.
>>
>> You sound like HP, trying to second-guess what conclusion the council
>> itself came to, just to come up with something favourable to Microsoft.
> 
> Nothing guess.
> 
> The report clearly specified what they counted and what they did
> not count.
> 
> And I noted that due to what they did not count, then no comptent
> CIO would use that report as evidence of anything.

There are lots of that kind of reports.

A well known example on the same topic but in the opposite direction
was the report made back in the same days that for some
web application, then a Linux solution was 2-3 times as
expensive as a Windows solution.

The numbers looked correct. But the report was still
absolutely worthless.

The web application needed an application server and
a database. For the Linux numbers they picked WebLogic
and Oracle DB EE.

Anyone that has ever seen an Oracle price list will
believe the result of the report.

But could it be used for anything? No.

That report was paid for by Microsoft, so nobody was expecting
a report that said that Linux was cheaper than Windows.

(in those days MS hated Linux - today MS loves Linux)

In the Munich case the city council was really asking the
IT department "did you make a good or a bad recommendation 10
years ago?" and not surprisingly the answer was "yes - we did"
and not "no - we fucked up".

Arne