On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Gavin Flower < gavinflo...@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:
> On 21/02/14 02:04, Dev Kumkar wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Gavin Flower < > gavinflo...@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote: > >> Upgrade servers to Linux? :-P >> > > Actually that's not the solution but running away from it. > There is a heavy footprint of customers and huge market on windows too and > so not that easy to migrate and convince in market. > > Regards... > > I am aware of the heavy presence of Microsoft in the market place and the > huge inertia of Microsoft dominated companies (even where management would > like to change), hence I was not trying to push upgrading to Linux too > strongly for this particular situation - more light hearted exasperation! > > None-the-less there are more and more companies making that move - as > there are a whole raft of very good reasons to do so. > > If the sole reason for going to Linux was the collation problem, then it > would probably be considered by most people to be a silly reason. > > > Cheers, > Gavin > > > P.S. Once a Senior Systems Analyst left the company I was working for to > become the DP manager of an IT department. I spoke to him shortly after > and he said it was an 'IBM shop' - about ten years later he was at the same > place, but he now said it was a 'Microsoft shop'. The dominant technology > that appears set in stone, does eventually change despite the market > inertia - my first commercial languages were FORTRAN & COBOL on > minicomputers & IBM style mainframes, now I use Java on Linux. > Hmm. Don't want to digress here and loose the topic context. Here would really appreciate if there are any suggestions for UTF-8 collation on Windows? Regards...
