Sid Boyce wrote:
There has been no CHOICE, netscape used to work with a kind of threat attached "You seem to be using a browser other than IE" etc., etc., then seemingly as time went by they discovered a way not to allow other browsers. Netscape and mozilla have been around for years, but some developers are either biased against other browsers or they don't have the required smarts, but many sites accept just about any browser. I've seen Linux firewalls that can only be configured to work with Windows. Novell are not alone as many moons ago IBM put up some Linux software for download by IE only and on searchenterpriselinux.com there are webcasts to do with Linux that require a Windows platform. Perhaps they do this thinking that Linux guys don't need to know the stuff, but whatever the reason, it's plain daft. The best strategy I've read of - one company converting to Linux from Windows fired those Windows guys who couldn't adapt and hired fewer Linux guys as the numbers needed were not as many as needed for Windows. Perhaps Novell should fire the few still stuck in a time warp. Regards Sid.
Here's an interesting article http://www.linuxpipeline.com/57701967