DISQUS

Mike,

I generally like Microsoft but in this virtualization area I'm more of a VMWare fan. Having said that, its probable that the "Microsoft Rep" - which could be an MS employee or a reseller "specialist" might just not know. I guess with virtualization so prevalent thats somewhat lame, but Microsoft seems to have an endless and changing number of licensing programs. I honestly think they are trying to do the right thing but there are just so many licensing models.

My big beef in the virtual arena is not so much with Microsoft's company line, its the weird way a lot of employees/bloggers/"exprerts" relay the information. Some of them sound like Microsoft invented the whole virtual concept.

You sort of forgot one thing....some of these items assume its a RAIDed drive.

What is it you don\'t condone? I agree that if you are quoting someone, you should cite - not only to be responsible but also because you can be legally liable if you don\'t!

But what\'s the problem with Wal-Mart or Microsoft using blog spaces to improve their image? Its clearly unethical (criminal?) if Wal-Mart logged onto anything with Target or K-Mart and \"commented\" on the poor service, price, etc. But why shouldn\'t a company use the blog world for its own purposes?

Your advice under item # 2 is spot on, however. Irrespective of ethics and legality, anything that smells bad will eventually come out and the company will suffer, even if they weren\'t the ones doing (or trying to do) something wrong.

Everyone should read stories on both sides with some skepticism. Don\'t you think that many anti-Wal-Mart stories are one-sided? If you listened to just one side of the argument you\'d either think Wal-Mart was the utopia of corporate world or the satan of employment. If Wal-Mart paid more cost for health care, etc., that\'s got to mean higher prices for me. But do they also have a better responsibility to their employees?

I don\'t want this to be a diatribe for or against Wal-Mart, I\'m just not sure what the delimma is.