On Sunday 12 October 2003 22:57, Bob Miller wrote:
> Those of you who compulsively read every link from Slashdot (-:
> saw that the article quotes Chris LaVoie, President of Nu-World
> Communication, Eugene, OR.
Actually they're in Springfield.
> Do you think that anyone who works there might want to give
> EUGLUG a presentation on Nu-World's BSD and Linux experience?
I used to work for Chris, and seeing this quote was somewhat of a
thrill for me. You see, one of the things that drove me nuts
over there were the 'doze workstations I had to use to administer
their servers....
They've been a BSDi shop forever, and were migrating to Sun
Cobalt boxen when I was brought in (that's mostly what I was
brought in for). They had an NT server they'd inherited from
acquiring an ISP, and Chris wasn't in any hurry to either secure
it or get rid of it.
Chris is no Open Source zealot; he's a hard-headed businessman
who looks at costs and benefits and makes decisions accordingly.
Their lead engineer at the time had just started learning Linux
and had lots of questions for me. They inherited another
engineer when they acquired Continet, and in the one
conversation I had with him he seemed to very much know what
he's talking about.
It was a thrill to see Chris' quote in InternetWeek. It's
especially good to know that he's finally getting away from 'Doze
on the office computers.
Ken
--
"If we give up our liberty in order to fight terrorism, what then
are we fighting for?"
-- Harry Browne, 1996 & 2000 Libertarian
candidate for US President
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