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[sienix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Guy Van Sanden)]

It' not easy, believe me.  I got it in because one of our 
departments creates software for Solaris, and NT couldn't get in 
on CD (it downcasts all filenames).

First of all, everything here is NT (from desktops to 
mailservers).  Except of course development, databases and 
security, that's all located on Sun Servers with Sun 
workstations.

Initially, a lot of money was spent on special sofware for an NT 
box... than even more money was spent trying to use CD writer 
software on solaris (by another department).

I mentioned I could do this on a Linux, and got assigned a very 
old Pentium 133 machine.  

After installing it, it became used for several other things, 
like a webserver, ftp server, security scanner... and it still 
writes CD's.

Now, I'm able to get Linux accepted as a solution, only when NT 
is not possible at all.  Than even with great resistance...

Management seems to have the notion that something that is free 
is automatically bad...
They resiste SAMBA (on Linux and Solaris), but are prepared to 
buy TAS (a commercial SMB server) for Solaris...

Go figure...

I wish you a great deal of luck, you'll need it, as will I.

Kind regards

Guy

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Hi There Guy

Can you tell me how to go about persuading so called "in the 
knowledge"
managers that Linux is much better than Winblows. - They all 
seem to be
blinkered in this respect. I am in charge of Internal IT for 
this company
and I would welcome any ideas from anyone on this subject

Thanks

Paul Ward (IT Manager CityPro International Ltd)

paul.ward@xxxxxxxxxxx
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