Getting Hung Up on the Apple-Microsoft War

[Collins Richey]

On 8/10/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> Quote of the day, in the NYTimes:
> "...
> After all, the I.T. people know where their bread is buttered. If Macs are
> indeed less trouble-prone and complex than Windows PC's, they're doomed in
> corporations; the last thing the I.T. guys want to do is obsolete
> themselves."

There's much more to it than that. The decisions (in corporations of
any size) are made by IT directors and CIOs whose bread is buttered by
"not rocking the boat." Even so, there is increasing awareness even in
these restricted circles about the value of Linux, but probably not
MAC since the equipment contracts are let based on maximum squeezing
of every last penny out of the vendor.

In our corporation which is pretty typical there is a great hodge
podge of legacy Windows systems and servers that are poorly defined
and work rather poorly. The worst of the bunch are a group of
middleware servers that fail several times per day. The corporation is
now actively working to replace these with Red Hat and other licensed
software (the corporation l-o-v-e-s to pay software licenses - gotta
have someone to kick around if you're too dumb to make it work). The
NT admins are going to Red Hat classes.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.