Getting Hung Up on the Apple-Microsoft War

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 21:09 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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 corporations; the last thing the I.T. guys want to do is obsolete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.

I wonder what happened here. Our company is a Novell company with an
Enterprise License. Or at least it has been. All network logins and disk
shares are managed by Novell stuff. Novell asked the company to consider
moving to SUSE Linux for this. But they have not been very aggressive.
So, the company is going MS for all this. I wonder why Novell have been
so timid. This is a 5000+ employee company. Surely it is worth their
effort. Just another mystery.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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