On 12/06/13 12:43, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote: >> A) I do not know about your local libraries but mine are still on >> windowsxp. So they will have to replace it soon with win8. And that >> has a steeper learning curve than any of the most common distros. B) > If Windows 8 does have a prohibitively-steep learning curve (and I > don't believe it does) then they will probably simply upgrade to > Windows 7. > >> win8 will require new hardware. > Perhaps following on from XP, but generally hardware will be replaced > to keep it in warranty as much as anything else. I know people running > Windows 8 on some pretty ancient hardware, and Ubuntu seems (judging > by other people's anecdotes) to be getting worse at old hardware, in > any case. > >> Appart from canonical who could provide the service? And why is windows >> service >> cheaper than gnu/linux distros? I thought the reasoning was that one >> gnu/linux >> admin was more expensive than a windows admin but a gnu/linux admin could >> manage over more units, so turned out cheaper. > Windows desktops are easier (and faster) to manage in number than > Linux because Windows has AD and Linux doesn't. On the *server* that > thing about volume-per-person is truer. It's been a few years since I > last looked at this in any great depth, but not enough that anything > developed in the meantime is likely to be mature enough to really > rival AD.
Isn't LDAP the equivalent of AD on windows. ? paul -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
