WE have a system like that here (wonder if they are the same....feel
free to mail me off list if you care to tell). It was in place before I
got here, so I know little about it, but then neither does the Chief.
anything outside of the norm requires a tech support call. It crashes
all the time, in ways the techs say "It can't do that".
Our new station has been running Rivendell for 4 months with no problems
at all. the other system has crashed twice this month already, I just
had to reboot it again 10 minutes ago......Howeveer the Jocks like it a
lot when it works, and it cost a lot of money, so I'm sure they would
not want rivendell installed, these are the same people that would not
use open office on a pc, claiming it doesn't do what they need but not
being able to say what it is it won't do (there are some things it won't
do that MS Office will). They didn't even want to try. I finally was
told to put MS Office on their machines....OK, whatever.
Personally I'd like to turn those green boxes into the worlds most
expensive Rivendell system........
Nathaniel C. Steele
Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director
WTRM FM
On 10/12/2011 9:03 AM, Rob Landry wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, James Laurence wrote:
If a broadcasting outfit is running perfectly happily and efficiently
and
trouble-free on a Windows platform, and is able to be maintained
by capable
staff who have only an elementary knowledge of Windows, then why
change to
Linux?
Don't. If it works and everybody's happy, end of story.
I have a client running [name of Windows-based automation system
deleted]; they have a lot of problems with it. The servers require
frequent reboots; strange, inexplicable glitches occasionally surface,
causing a variety of embarrassments on the air. And the system is so
complicated that no one can make any configuration changes without
calling the factory. But most of the time it works, and they are
making money with it. Will I advise them to change to another system?
I will not. They are used to this one with all its faults, and their
AM is a news-talk station with a bewildering array of programs and
features from various networks, most of them satellite-delivered and
many of the features pre-recorded. Re-inventing that in the context of
a different system would cost a lot of man-hours, and the expense just
isn't justifiable.
But if I were building that station from scratch, whould I use [name
of Windows-based automation system deleted]? No way. They've spent
close to $100,000 on it, money that could have been spent more
profitably elsewhere. I'd use Rivendell.
I also consider that you have overstated the Windows deficiencies and
understated the drawbacks associated with implementing a Linux-based
solution. I am familiar with both platforms and simply can't buy your
proposition that Windows "takes just as much technical competence as
running
Linux does, if not more". Just not true in the numerous cases I have
witnessed.
In my experience, Windows-based radio automation systems (whis is,
after all, what we are talking about) require no less technical
competence than Rivendell.
Windows remains the preferred platform for a vast majority of non-IT
users
around the globe, because (a) you don't have to have an IT-proficient
expert
to run it, and (b) managers and non-IT personnel can manage Windows
without
too much difficulty. And, if the outfit's happy with that, why change?
Change for change's sake makes no sense to me.
Windows is the preferred platform more or less by default, much as
English is the international language of business. That does not
concern me; I am in business to create solutions for my clients, and
if non-Windows solutions are less expensive to build than
Windows-based solutions, at least as reliable, and require less
ongoing attention (alas for me, who could use the extra income), why
go with Windows?
Rob
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