On Tuesday 27 March 2001 15:23, Kevin Breit wrote: <snip>
While in general I agree with you, I think you're forgetting that you need to retrain all your secretaries and people who aren't Unix literate. Kevin Breit
Possibly, if they were going to be admins. But, for $80K you can do a lot of training, and that's a one time deal. With M$ you'll be on the 'upgrade' treadmill and the number of $80K tax payments will continue without end or until your business goes broke. So, how much training could two cycles of M$ upgrade pay for if SuSE broke the cycle? Also, most office apps are point & click. The last time I setup up a SuSE box at work the person repeated the FUD thrown at Linux as if it were gospel. When I asked her how long she thinks it will take to reteach her how to "point&click" she laughed. If it wasn't for her other box being a WinXX she probably would have fogotten how to scandisk & defrag by now, since her SuSE box, up 24/7, hasn't crashed since Sept of last year. So, IMO, this ZDNET story is just another round of FUD fired at Linux by the worlds most polished and paid FUD machine.