[ale] Google Trends

[meuon at geeklabs.com (Mike Harrison)]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> Question:
> 
> Based on data shown on the URL below, what are your thoughts on what it
> means?
> 
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=fedora,ubuntu,suse,redhat,novell


It means: Ubuntu Rocks. 

I've become quite the fan, and I know almost nothing about it. 
It just installs and works.. We've got a couple of spare laptops
at a clients that we did nice Ubuntu installs on. When a M$-users
messes up the machine, we hand them an Ubuntu loaner.. 
with no instructions beyond the login/password.

2 of the M$-users now dual-boot and prefer Ubuntu. (M$ for games).
1 of them said: forget the M$ stuff. 

I'd never liked Debian... until Ubuntu made it worth my time to.
Personally I now have an Ubuntu/debian lamp server right next to 
my RHES4 one, and now prefer it for web app development in LAMP. 
My largest client now has a rack full of Ubuntu LAMP servers.
And.. I've convinced some clients make sizable contribs to:  
http://www.ubuntu.com/donations and some individual projects
(MySQL, PostgreSQL, FCKeditor..)

Just show them what a similiar M$ server install would cost.