On 10/18/07, Robert J. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With proprietary software, you're mostly stuck relying on your vendor > for information. Compare "Microsoft says that IIS will scale up to our > server load with our current server configuration" to "the Apache > Foundation isn't making any promises, but I've had Apache running for > the last month on a test server and it's performing flawlessly." > > The first statement's source is Microsoft. Their method is presumably > their own internal testing.
Why wouldn't you set up a test lab with the Microsoft products as well? They offer zero-cost trial and developer editions of their products for that express purpose. You should never rely on the word of a vendor if there is an alternative. You can always find proprietary vendors that will give you a trial of some sort. At my company, we've had months-long trial installations of $1M+ vertical market software packages before signing any agreement to purchase. -- RPM _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
