Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 02 November 2006 19:02, Ken Jennings wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 21:10, M Harris wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:32, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > > believing that people LIKE windoze... DONT THEY GET IT!!! .... the
> > > > reason we run Linux is because we HATE windoze....
> > >
> > > That may be the reason why you run linux, but it's hardly a reason for
> > > major corporations, and this announcement is aimed squarely at major
> > > corporations
> > >
> > > A CTO would be fired on the spot if he played by emotions
> >
> >      Who are you trying to kid?
> >
> >      Corporations hate windoze. Ask any of the corporations which have
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> I second that. The PC maintenance people at work HATE Windows. (They only
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This is interesting to read. I work for one organization now with roughly 
96,000 employees and untold numbers of servers/workstations. Previously I 
worked for a company with only 18,000 employees.

At my previous employer, I was one of only a few "linux" devotees. Though we 
had 12 SLE servers, they were all vendor-installed and supported. I had to 
dig and fight to get one SUSE server installed and in production. (In the 
end, it was decided it would be easier to run Tomcat/Java/Apache on a Win2K3 
workstation, so my server was eventually abandoned in spite of the headaches 
of running Windows, due to the overwhelming need to be "windows based" at all 
costs.)

At my current place, the environment is much the same. I'm currently leading a 
multi-year project to replace a combo mainframe / windows vendor-based system 
with an in-house system. The main requirement - all windows servers. No Linux 
needed. Even Java isn't allowed. 

Now, I'm quietly running a workstation/server with SUSE 10.1 and a LAMP stack. 
It currently hosts a web portal for about 10 people. However, I'm being very 
quiet about the whole thing, because I know that there, Windows is king.  The 
whole corporate environment exudes Windows dominance. It is very weird. 

Meanwhile, I happily run my laptops with SUSE 10.1 and no one asks why. :)

I only get a few questions about the Matrix or GPL Chess screen savers.  
kai ponte
www.perfectreign.com