Hi all,
Here's an "interesting" tidbit. I was at a meeting Thursday night. In attendance was
the IT business analyst from EWEB. We got to talking, and I told him I did networks
at the U. He started telling me about the new IT tracking software they were about to
spend $100-$150K on (for a 450 box shop). I told him about what I was using-- IRM --
designed for metropolitan area school districts, does just about anything the
expensive ones do, and free (as in speech and beer). He told me that because it ran
on Linux, it was too difficult.
Being that they have a big IT department for 450 computers and I have me for 140
computers (I also support a power generation facility), this tells me some not very
good things about how are electric bills are being used.
I guess, in retrospect, I should have told him to find me an old pentium they were
getting ready to toss and to give me a thousand bucks and a couple of hours to set up
a system for them....
Cheers,
Dennis
--
The most important design issue... is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun...
- Linus Torvalds
