Switching from AIX, Solaris, HP/UX or similar to Linux is a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned. Heck, at my old company, we made that switch back in 2000, so I wouldn't call this move by the City IT group particularly breathtaking in its boldness or vision.
The credit for that goes to the price/performance advantage of Intel and AMD based boxes over the RISC based boxes. It's really more of a hardware switch than anything else. Wouldn't it be ironic if Linux is just being used to wean some old Unix hands off their beloved command prompt, and maybe even via KDE into accepting Windows? Ouch, wouldn't that hurt !
I think the City of Calgary is still firmly in bed with MS. Just look at the typical quote from their IT postings - the following is from: http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/hr/Postings/ccpcs004-IT04-5461.htm :
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The City of Calgary uses the following tools and technologies for client server and web application development: Visual Basic 6.0 accessing Oracle using ADO; N-Tier development using COM+; Web development using ASP with VBScript (limited Javascript) running under IIS; Active Reports for integrated reporting; Visual Source Safe for source code management; PL/SQL for Oracle stored procedures and triggers; ESRI tools for GIS development; Visio for data modeling and methodology deliverables; and Project Analyzer and Mercury tools for ASQ. The City is transitioning towards a VB.NET / ASP.NET environment.
</QUOTE>
Does anyone see any open source thinking in there whatsoever? Especially the last sentence makes it abundantly clear, that their future is getting more entrenched into MS technology, rather than even keeping their options open with J2EE (Java), or at least some of the LAMP tools as their strategic server side choices. And as far as I'm concerned, using MS on the server is only imaginable, if you are having a die-hard MS strategy on the desktop. I can't imagine even the City IT group can cook up something as technically/strategically perverse as to run MS on the server, and Linux on the desktop.
If someone doesn't even have the insight to prepare for running Linux on the server, where it is really a no-brainer by now, you know exactly which cool-aid is being served in the City of Calgary cafeteria!
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So sorry, but I don't even see strategic open mindedness, so no cheering from this taxpayer.
...Niels
p.s. I'd love to be proved wrong by a senior City IT manager!
Cameron Nikitiuk wrote:
I gave a hearty "Holy Crap!" when I read City Of Calgary... maybe Bronco has whacked some sense into some people down there. Not a big fan of the guy...buy he has done some good stuff.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of bogi Sent: February 27, 2004 5:38 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] no comment
Is it possible to get Dan Ryan to do a speech , lecture and discussion forum for/ with clug ???? At least he is in Calgary, Now He definitely deserves some honorary penguin belt . . .
Cheers Szemir
On February 27, 2004 16:47, Pete wrote:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=1&u=/pcworl
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no comment
Peter
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