What about that tiny weeny company called, IBM...
Philip Serracino Inglott wrote:
I do not get it James .. is Google not part of the industry?
What about Industrial Light and Magic?
and all the other stories you read about on /. or linux journal?
Philip
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 19:44, James Attard wrote:
Sorry but I completely disagree with you David -
If you mean big money making companies to switch their servers to Linux
- you can forget that. I use Linux at work for a test bed. For the rest
there's Solaris. Like me there are many other engineers who think it
that way (replace Solaris by SCO UNIX / HP / Windows Based Servers).
Reason being support.
If you mean for desktop - again - I don't think Linux is yet suitable
for desktop computers in companies - Calendar/Scheduling a-la MS Outlook
is just the tip of the iceberg. Not to mention the number of secretaries
and clerks employed because of their experience in Windows.
What follows is my opinion, but Linux does not have a place in industry
(even IT managers who are into Linux know that, unless of course in the
near future, Sun for example, makes Sun Linux more feasible and
deployable for servers).. In a nutshell, what I think is that Linux is
more easily to be introduced in schools at the moment. And *that* should
be the target - again, IMHO.
That's the place of Linux - schools... Unless people will not "grow"
with Linux mentality, it will be like trying to explain the old species
that the world is round. And by schools I mean at a college (secondary
school) level. It takes time for adaptation.
Jamez.
http://root-box.info
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