"Microsoft is not more expensive than Linux"

... according to a recent study funded by ... oh, never mind. Funded by Microsoft. OK, skip that, but there is some other interesting tech news.

Here's a piece on how Linux is better than Windows. I don't know where I find these things. Have a look:

Microsoft encourages us to think of Linux... as an also-ran operating systems for nerds. The last thing Microsoft wants us to think about is that there are some spaces where Microsoft is a distant number two and Linux is on top. ... One such is HPC (High Performance Computing).

At HPC's very highest end, supercomputers, Linux rules. The first computer to bust the petaflop, 1.0 quadrillion calculations per second, barrier? IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer running Linux. Out of the Top 500 supercomputers in the world, over 80% of them are running Linux.

Better still, Linux manages to pull this off by largely using off-the-shelf components unlike the supercomputers of years gone by. Instead of specialized hardware, the Roadrunner uses AMD Opteron and Sony, Toshiba and IBM's Cell processors. Yes, that's the same Cell CPU that's inside your Sony PlayStation 3.
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Rest of the story is here.

Do you know what Drupal is? Probably. But do you know what Acquia is? If you care, have a look at Drupal's Barry Jaspan.

I like when they giggle about writing a shopping cart app in perl.

Quickies:
Cygwin is dropping Windows 9x.

What is the best mouse evah?

What is the best Linux distro 4u?