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Those who can't write blogs for washed up magazine's Web sites

First this tool writes about how the London Stock Exchange crashes, and it's all the fault of using Microsoft software. He has no evidence, mind you, but that must be it.

But oh wait, no, it was a network problem.

It still seems ridiculous that people get into this religious zealotry, and people are really into it. Is it because people like me are so annoyed by it? Some tool whose byline says he's been writing about software for 30 years doesn't make him qualified to make such asinine statements. Fortunately some people called him out on it.

But hey, clueless pundits keep those of us who endeavor in consulting rolling in the cash I suppose. Maybe we should write more about it.

5 Comments

  • Steven Vaughn-Nichols has long been clueless about technology.

    Look on the bright side though, it's guys like that who give consultants a lot of work cleaning up their messes.

  • From that idiot "author"'s profile
    http://blogs.computerworld.com/user/137

    "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge, PC operating system; 300bps was a fast Internet connection; WordStar was the state of the art word processor; and we liked it!"


    After all these years, he still has NOT a clue about what he wrote about...
    Yeah, that is pretty lame. Idiots like that shouldn't be in the business at all.

  • All agreed that Vaughan-Nichols is a poor journalist.

    However, does anyone know of some good articles about the relative merits of .NET/SQL Server and Java or C++/Oracle or DB2 or MySql for large scale applications?

    Just so long as they aren't written by Oracle/Sun/Microsoft...

  • This seems to be a trend spread well on the IDG websites. Not only the authors of the articles but also te responding people seem to be so much linux fanboys that they respond with blabber to anything microsoft related. For example their dutch website webwereld.nl is so spoiled i don't even bother looking at it anymore.

  • Microsoft.com is bigger than anything most of us will ever touch, and it's clearly doing OK on the platform. When I was consulting at Progressive, their entire policy processing system was moving to .NET, though I'm not sure if everything or just some portions of the system were going to SQL Server.

    It's like anything else... if it's well built, the platform matters less.

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