Try installing Red Hat here and you'll find :
1. The people that really know UNIX/Linux don't come cheap. You have to hand-hold and educate those that do not have skills in this area, and these people are normally reluctant learners.
2. Those that have a little knowledge in this area are the ones you need to watch out for, because they normally botch the software or server installs, resulting in a non-secure and unstable system. You will get lots of excuses from them, and denials -- and an unstable UNIX/Linux server!
For me, I have a few personal guidelines on the choice of going with Microsoft or Linux or UNIX :
1. If you have no budget, but you have a lot of time -- go with Linux. Because you will likely be going it alone, you need the time, and you don't have to ask the boss for a budget. But document everything as you go along, because, at some point, you will need to hand over to someone else.
2. If you have a small budget and some time -- go with Linux, because the small budget is probably for hardware only, and does not include software licenses. Use the time to build a system that works well with minimal supervision (Linux + great hardware = awesome!)
3. If you have a lot of money but very little time -- go with Microsoft, because you can hire a whole herd of ASP programmers and SysAdmins for peanuts and get up and running very quickly.
4. If you have a lot of money and a lot of time -- go with Sun or AIX (forget SCO!), because you can hire good people to do a good job, once and (hopefully) for all.
All this assumes that you know UNIX/Linux very well yourself! If you do not, then only option 3 will work, and you'd better be very persuasive.
Regards, pascal chong
Bill Campbell wrote:
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003, joel wrote:
There was a lot of correspondence generated by that essay.
It would be nice if all linux advocates bothered to learn to use correct English grammar and spelling, but, such is life.
No worse than many teachers in the U.S. Government schools.
Of more interest was the claim by one fellow that their switch to linux worked great until a couple of guys left who knew linux and then everything fell apart. He even claimed they got hit by viruses.
Now, how can viruses affect linux if you are running the boxes properly?
This one fellow sounded like he worked for a company that didn't have procedure manuals. In my place of work, a hospital, we have procedure manuals for every conceivable task.
The vast majority of my small-to-medium business customers running Linux don't have any full-time IT staff. We provide on-line support, and rarely have to go on-site.
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