On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, oTe wrote about, QUESTION/ADVICE : LINUX AS A SERVER IN A CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT: > > I have recently had an opinion put forward to my company in relation to the > benefits of linux of other server operating systems such as novell and > windows nt. The comments made were along the lines of; > > we dumped our linux box in favour of a novell small business system > which is easy to manage and fully compatible with the rest of our network. > > linux has a lot of supporters mainly people who have come from a > unix environment and others who do not like microsoft BUT it is not a > mainline network operating system. > > the level of support for linux is minimal. > > linux may go the way of os2 a great system but even with the support > of IBM it finally died because the market didnt support it. > > When i answer these questions i do not want to come accros as evangelistic > or what not but I dont know how to answer my bosses who seem to think that > the person who made these remarks is akin to god in the computer industry. > > If anyone could provide some feedback or advice relating to how to handle or > what information i should provide (any opinions from people certified in > novell and microsoft etc would be useful), it would be much appreciated as I > have run linux at home for quite a few years now and it is by far the most > stable operating system i have ever seen, however at present my bosses do > not seem to put much stock in my opinion over that of other professionals. You will find no answer to the most fequently asked question by a company manager/director which is; Support for linux, simply because there is no support for linux as compared to what microsoft calls support. Yes distro's like Redhat have support or a support desk, but judging by the amount of mails to this list about support from different distributions, this cannot be considered an argument. If on the other hand you can find someone in a higher up postion in a company who uses linux him/herself then you are halfway there. What companies want is a scapegoat, someone to fallback on when "anything" does not work like "they" think it should. One thing is helping in this fileld, agreements between Linux and IBM for example, more and more computer companys are offerening linux as an alternative operating system. That is one which you will be able to say to your boss. Not listning to microsoft propegander is another way of putting Linux forward, Linux does not use brainwashing technicqes like microsoft does. > > Regards, > > > Wylie Edwards > I.T. Manager > Simon Parsons & Co > 165 Princes Highway > MORWELL VIC 3840 > Ph: 03 5133 7788 > Fax: 03 5133 9335 > > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; name="winmail.dat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
