Ed Leafe <> wrote: > On Dec 15, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Stephen the Cook wrote: > >> About a month ago I had a good talk with a network admin who gave me >> a lot of reasons why porting over to Linux is so much harder then it >> sounds. Education of the admins is the largest hurdle for any >> company to overcome. Do you think that the employers would fund >> training, test machines and allow good testing for a cross over from >> "Exchange" to another product. >> Now start >> to list all the products that the company has to switch over..... > > Subtract the cost to large companies of the requirements for > licensing policing, legal defense, anti-virus, security breaches, ... > > I agree; inertia is the main reason people stick with Microsoft. The > ones who do make the effort are the ones who have either been burned > by security flaws or who have spent too much time dealing with > Microsoft's legal department.
Security flaws exist in all types of sw. Stephen Russell DBA / .Net Developer Memphis TN 38115 901.246-0159 "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.20/588 - Release Date: 12/15/2006 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
