[lug] Quote of the Day

[D. Stimits]

Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:08:35PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > They're having a hard enough time selling the newer Windows into the
> > DESKTOP environment.  Why would they suddenly take over the server
> > market?
> 
> Well, here's a real-world story backing this up... this should be
> generic enough that it's not proprietary information.
> 
> As solid evidence of this, when my employer found it would cost almost
> one MILLION dollars for our medium-sized company to upgrade from the
> current WinNT (Hey!  I take care of the Linux boxes!) environment to
> Win2K Pro, they immediately decided against it in the 2001 budget.
> Upgrades to 2K are only done now for "business need" and are
> pretty-much "unsupported" by our IT staff & helpdesk. (Although I've
> never seen those guys ever turn down a help request from anyone, even
> those who claim to have "done nothing" to their machines... *wink*.
> They deserve medals-of-honor for putting up with that.)
> 
.....
> 
> Anyway, I would add that there's no WAY I would put Linux desktops in
> front of the average Sales or Marketing person... Windows (like any
> tool) definitely has its place in the corporate world.  But I heartily
> recommend that mission-critical services can be done on Linux or other
> Unix variants cheaper and more reliably.  Some days you win that
> argument, others you lose.  Most of the time half of the WinZombies just
> think you're nuts.  :)
> 
> --
> Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
> 
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I'm curious if your company does its own programming, especially on the
Linux machines? Is it a provider of some service (other than
programming), or does it write new applications?

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com