it clown wrote:
I think why linux is growing so slowly in companies are because of the it managers that do not deserve that title.They dont know whats out there. Whats better or how to save money. When the dinosaurs retire things should change, i hope.
There are never any sudden moves in IT, the snowball starts out egg size and you don't see an avalanche for ages. Some of those decision makers are accustomed to the warm blanket that a Microsoft provides and I personally have seen the FUDsters at work if you ever try to come out from under, they have even got managers sacked. Some articles by consultants have recommended a gradualist, planned and coherent strategy to migration, their arguments seem sensible - every step must be manageable and carefully targetted for little or no disruption - as seemless as possible. A few years ago in preparation for a gathering of IT Directors in the US, the organizers of the conference canvassed the staffs of those companies to see how many of the 200 had deployed Linux, most had. Then at the conference they asked the bosses what their reactions would be to Linux being deployed in their companies. Reactions were hostile, from threatening instant dismissal, calling secuity and having the guy escorted off the premises, etc., no lynchings though. However, that must have caused some reflection, the bosses realising they didn't know what was deployed in their shops. By the next conference, most of the bosses were more sanguine about Linux deployments - quite a turn around. One guy said he had a Linux print and file server coupled to some Sun servers, a power cut came along and a couple of the Sun boxes suffered hardware damage, so print was very slow. He got an email from the Managing Director saying NO MORE LINUX, to which he replied that Linux was fine and that it was a couple of Sun servers that were down. The resistance is crumbling. In a meeting with a customer about three years ago, I was characterised to the customer by our account sales manager as a Linux bigot. In recent times I've greeted customer discussions about their linux plans and deployments with quiet smugness by the ton. Not bad progress for what one guy called "Boy's own Unix" in a UK hamradio newsgroup some five years ago, drawing a parallel with the once popular "Boy's own comic". Linux learned to walk, now it's running faster and faster, MS knows what it means well ahead of their existing customers who will be using Linux down the road a bit. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====