On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 11:43:34AM -0500, Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
> > Remember the saying, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station
> > wagon full of tapes"? Well, never underestimate the power of a million
> > Micro$oft-hating hackers.
>
> I don't see it.
Consider that Unix/Linux-based freeware now runs most of the 'net:
sendmail moves nearly all of the mail, apache powers most of the web, bind
is the overwhelming choice for DNS, perl dominates CGI-BIN programming,
and so on. We already "own", so to speak, the Internet's backbone.
Oh, the magazines are constantly interviewing suits at Fortune 500 companies
about their "NT migration plans" and writing articles about them, but this
hardly matters. These people were of no consequence when we built the
Internet while they ignored us; they are of no consequence now, either.
They are simply sheep, following the herd. If you want to see where
Linux is going, look elsewhere -- like on the 'net itself, in the newsgroups,
mailing lists, and web sites populated by people who are innovating,
not marketing.
> I have been mentioning Linux ever since I got this job. Recent articles in some
> info magazines has my boss thinking about putting the intranet on linux. But
> the current intranet (although woefully underdeveloped) is on an NT and all the
> accounting software is MS. As much as I would like to use linux for the intranet
> I could not recommend it. The whole idea is to integrate the accounting system
> with the users on the network.
I can't help you -- I don't do MIS-type things because I firmly believe
that "management" and "information" do not belong in the same acronym.
I'm sure that there are lots of people in the Linux community who *don't*
agree with that attitude, and somebody (probably multiple somebodies)
will take the time to create or port that kind of s/w to it. They may
have already, for all I know. You might want to post an article to
one of the Linux newsgroups related to office-type applications and
see if somebody has already solved the problem.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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