Well, in my experience most univesities teack unix to anyone that is getting a degree in computer engineering or comp sci. The computer information majors are the ones that learn windows. The field has various names but is essentially a hydrid degree mixing business ciriculum and a basics of system admin. I have to be honest that most people that get any degree in a dedicated comp sci/engineering above the bacholers degree are all taught and fairly well versed in Unix. Since Linux is an offset of Unix most qualified university grads should and usually do know how to run a Linux box. The problem is usually management and/or the CIO's. They are mostly business degreed and therefore have a myopic view of any product that isn't made or backed by a major corperate vendor. If you really talk to a wide variety of in the trenches sys admins that have more than just an MSCE cert (and therefore want to call themselves "engineers" - HA) they will probably tell you they run a Sun/UNIX or similair servers and Windows desktops. The problem I keep hearing (if you can get one away from work to be honest) is that the fear of no user apps and no internal management support. Consider most sigh M$ contracts and are essentially afraid of dealling with any conflict with the Beast. Cheers, Curtis On Wednesday 20 November 2002 15:34, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
Hi,
Are there any IT departments in big companies which support desktop Linux and how they do it?
The problem with official Linux support puzzles me. Two users told me quite recently they would like to run Linux on their PCs. Their knowledge is sufficient to use Linux but they will never administer the system. I had to recommend MS-Windows or MacOS instead since these systems are supported by their IT departments (In a large hospital and university network in this case.)
These IT departments have developed sophisticated methods of MS-Windows support and are not willing to invest into Linux. I understand their reasons (Universities don't teach Linux so there is a lack of people with Linux administration skills, there is no "standard" Linux distribution, ...). I don't see any way how to change it and it worries me.
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