On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Frank Lee wrote:
> Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> >
> >
> > No surprise there. I'd say that attempting to deploy NT for
> > any kind of mission-critical (oh, *man*, did I just use a buzzword?!)
> > application is grounds for charges of professional incompetence and
> > negligence. It amazes me that people are still trying to use NT
> > for *anything*, but I guess there are always sheep following
> > the marketeers instead of technical excellence (in the 80's, it
> > was DEC; in the 70's, it was IBM).
>
> Interestingly, research in this market shows that most of the IT market
> regards UNIX as out of date and old technology, and NT as the future.
> (Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger!)
Probably goes hand-in-hand with the fact that the large % of IT geeks now
are MBAs with tech focus, and not CS's with some business knowledge. :P
there was a good articxle in Inforworld on this subject recently. They
analyzed some shops where Linux was being used, and the sneaky ways the
techs were getting it in. Good piece on how most of the graphics for
Titanic were done on an Alpha Linux farm, too. They also spoke with
someone from Boeing about their use of Linux.
On the personal chuckle side, I toured a shop in DC last week where they
produce daily newsletter-like publications for the congressional crowd.
In the meeting with the bosses present, the techs were oddly quiet when i
asked technical "what-if" questions, as I was clearly trying to determine
the platforms they used so I could see how'd they'd mesh with our own.
Later in the week, on a tour of the facilities with the boss gone, they
were much more open . . . . the reason: the boss had paid for and
thought
he was running 20 or so NT boxes. He was instead running one NT box at
the gateway (so the trail looked good on outgoing stuff), and 19 Alpha's
with Redhat 5.1 :) They even had redhat Xfree86 desktop themes
installed on the all the Win95 boxes, so even Windows looked somewhat
like Linux and no one would see the differing windows implementations as
they looked around the lab.
It's out there ;)
Brett
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