[ snips ] On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 05:05:21 +1130 Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks, I've just come back from the Netherlands and I think many of > you would be interested in the following (mercifully brief) > observations I made while there. Europeans on this list would > correct me, but these are impressions from an outsider. > > RS6000's are the name of the game. IBM have a big footprint. I was > mildly surprised to see small flat boxes in the corner of just about > any travel agent, small insurance office, even landscape gardening > centers. I expected to see clusters of the usual wintel workstations > and was mildly surprised to see the prevalence of single, AIX4 > workstations, not clusters., just a single box doing it's job. The > impression I got was NT? what's that? Big Bill is not a player > there. (just an impression folks) > > Secondly, there is a push to migrate these boxen to AIX5L, read the > letter L. It means Linux. Suspicions confirmed. I always thought the Dutch were intelligent people. -- Collins Richey Denver Area - 12DEC2001 - WWTLRD? gentoo_rc6 k2.4.17-pre8+ext3+xfce+sylpheed+galeon _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
