On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Fred Lenk wrote:
> Having spent a number of years in a very bureaucratic environment
> (civil service), I can tell you the reason for "choosing" anything
> from Microsoft is that the person who makes the "decision" to use
> Microsoft products can never be wrong in his choice, because
> "everybody" is using MS products. Its not so much that Linux,
> or even HPUX or AIX or any of the Unixes (or Timex-Sinclair,
> Commodore 64, or CPM) would be a better choice of operating
> system for an application, its just that those whose job is on the
> line for making the "decision" take the safe path. Even if a MS
> product turns out to not be capable (and I've seen plenty of them
> that were inadequate for various jobs they were supposed to do), the
> decision maker is still safe and his supervisors will spend any
> amount of money trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
>
I work as a consultant so I understand your problem but from a
different standpoint. My boss's bos is afraid to go any way except MS.
Even though I have a Linux box sitting two feet away from my desk he
doesn't want to hear anything non-ms. I can show him how it serves
webpages at the speed of light (a small 16 MB, 75 mhz pentium which
virtually kills the MS-IIS based 150mhz PPro with 64 megs of ram).
Just doesn't matter to him. Not that it bothers me too much, the
rest of the programmer types have really taken an interest to it. They
see it as an opportunity for writing software for a New World.
I'm in the process of doing some performance testing of some Linux
based SQL database systems (yes, the little P75 against the world) to
build another case. Numbers speak more effeciently then words sometimes.
Damond
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