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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> --- Homyar Bhathena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dataquest put together the latest stats about
> > why businesses don't use Linux. These are
> obstacles that Linux must overcome to grow.
> >
> > Lack of in-house expertise. 25% of businesses
> > shy from Linux because their IT staffs don't
> know how to operate it.
>
Then they really otta learn, not that they need to, cause NT aldready
earns them their Bread & butter. Else its WindoZE for them & for vryone on the
n/w.
Pals, i've worked with a few Sysadmins who admin NT machines. The
prob with most of them is that they have started their IT carrer's with WindoZe
& moved onto administering NT. This gives them the mindset that everythin in
Life otta come EASY & BUGGY & COSTLY.
Not their fault, is it?. What do ya think fellas.
> These Companies should be sacking their IT staff.
> The job of IT dept. is to keep cost down thru IT.
>
> > Free isn't free if you have to hire an engineer
> to run it.
As Terence wonderfully says, Don't they aldready have
engineers working for them. Guess pple want everythin on a Golden Platter
now-a-days. Too good for Microsoft.
>
> They already have IT staff so seems the point is
> irrelevant.
>
> > Lack of applications.
>
>
> > Lack of standardisation... but Linux could
> divide itself into the kind of incompatible
> versions that marginalised Unix.
>
Thats somethin thats doin the rounds for a long time, but nothin seems to have
come outa it. I think the tremendous amount of paralell development & the rate
at which it is goin on will take its toll on the OS. But what the heck as long
it's OPen source & works perfectly nothin else matters. Another thing that
comes to my mind is that , the only reason that we have so many distros of
Linux is so that evryone has a choice of their Platform & the kinda enviroment
they want to run it in. Could we hav that on WindoZE. ???
Not until WindoZE went into Open source.
> Very conveniently forget that Linux and OS is
> based on standards and that the biggest violater
> of standards is MS.
"Killing the innovation" is Microsofts motto.
>
> > GET SMALL
>
> It is. Too many examples (read erlier post on
> hardware). Also you would not dare use a MS
> product in an embedded system. Imagine your smart
> card reader in the lift controlling the lift
> ascent to the 15th floor hanging. You would wind
> up on the 128th floor (or worse if you were going
> down).
>
Yeh that's one troubled customer. :-), :-)
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