The Power of Perception

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Sep 4, 2008 7:44 PM EDT
ServerWatch; By Paul Rubens
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The truth is perception plays a large part in most buying decisions, and that goes from choosing a brand of laundry detergent to buy all the way up to deciding what operating systems to run. Just ask Microsoft. The perception is that its Vista OS is a pile of garbage, and Microsoft reckons it's worth spending $100 million on a campaign to try to change that perception. Linux has many things going for it, yet it makes up just 13.4 percent of total server revenue.

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