in the end of this meeting, we had some argument with mike, regarding what
would constitute a good reason for a company to switch its computing
system to linux.
my current claim was that when a youngster (school kid, bored/lazy
student) wants to play with a computer and networking, they tend to do
that on linux systems, rather then on NT systems. within a few years,
those youngsters would become more or less profficient linux
administrators, while those that played with NT/win9X would not. when that
happens, it will be easier to find linux administration personell, then to
find windows administration personell. this would beat out the current
problem of having hard time finding linux systems administrators, and that
would become a valid reason for companies to base their computing systems
on linux, rathern then NT.
as of today, mike had a valid point - for an ammount of money that is far
less then that of a good unix sys admin, one could hire 2 students that'd
re-install windows systems over and over when the need arises. that,
together with keeping a few spare windows systems (to give the users that
wait for their OS's re-install) quite solves window's instability
problems - in the way that the _users_ feel it. go ahead and claim that
this is stupid or silly or a bad thing to do - but business wise, it does
make quite a lot of sense.
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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