On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Dustin Puryear wrote: > I had heard that they were replacing the state's entire IT infrastructure > with Debian. This is wrong?
I seriously doubt that. Have any of you looked at the Office of Information Technology webpage? (http://www.state.la.us/oit) This department is charged with "implementing a state master information technology plan". They are producing "standards" that are being forced on all state agencies. Being a state agency, we at Southeastern checked to see if this affected us. We learned that higher education institutions are "strongly encouraged" to follow the standards, but not required. Good thing or i'd be looking for another job. Well... look at some of the standards: Personal Computing Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro Personal Computing Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2000 Enterprise Applications Electronic Messaging: Microsoft Exchange 2000 Personal Computing Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer Personal Computing Network Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server About the only thing they got right: Personal Computing Network Protocol: IETF TCP and IPv4 Obviously someone at Microsoft is in bed with someone at OIT. It is good when the OIT can help standardize and support agencies that are too small for their own IT department. It is bad that they are actively seeking out and replacing Netware, Unix, and mainframe systems that have been working great for years with inferior and more expensive products. If any LUG's in Louisiana need a project, we should be battling the OIT's Microsoft mentality. -Ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
