On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:
I am one of these people. I was hard-core Microsoft from 1986 to 1997, but after 10 months of hourly (or more frequently) crashes, I ran headlong into the Open [Source] arms of Linux, and have enjoyed a much higher quality of life (and now income) for it.
LINUX ROCKS!!!
George
You read my bio! I should have patented it! ;-) Since I must continue to use M$ platforms at work I continue to be plauged by Bill's 'Innovations'. I recently had to upgrade from Win95 SRO to Win98SE. Now I frequently get 'offset error' messages and on about 30% of them I crash. I make it a habit to reboot my workstation every morning, and then sometime around noon, and always after a crash. Figuring that It takes about 3 minutes to get back to working mode after a reboot or crash, I get the equivilent of about 30 minutes of extra breaktime everyday. That's 3 to 6K$ per year of employee costs just to reboot a flaky OS. For 500 hundred employees that is about, conservatively, $300K to $600K per year wasted employee times. The box I am own now has been on 24/day for the last 4 days. Prior to the netscape crash 4 days ago it had been up 24/7 for weeks. I remember taking it down because of a rare electrical storm in February, and before that I don't remember. Money saved, if we were using Linux at work. (We will, sooner that the Microdroids realize!) JLK -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/