On Thursday 27 April 2006 15:02, Kai Ponte wrote:
Hopefully I'll be getting SUSE in here at my new office, too. I just have to convince upper management that my 98,000 co-workers need to upgrade from Windows.
The trick is proving to the corporate world that it saves *them* money to be platform independent--allow the employees to choose the platform that works for them. The platform should be the employee's responsibility: The employee comes to work with a functioning lap-top (their choice, their load) complete with desk-top of choice, an e-mail client, word-processor [office suit], and Wifi card... the employer maybe maintains databases, infrustructure, firewall, etc, but the employee maintains their own workstation--just like they maintain their own automobile, wardrobe, and lifestyle. Platform independence saves money and allows the best technology to rise to the top without being stomped by a really bad M$ momentum. Companies do not need to be in the PC hardware/software cycle, neither do they need to be dominated by '80s-'90s M$ strategies. All of my machines are running SUSE-- 9.2 9.3 and 10.0 ... and they run great! (When I worked at IBM [25 years] I used Windblows to run Lotu$ Note$ and Linux for everything else... Redhat at the time, until I learned how to run Lotu$ Note$ in Wine... then I used Linux for everything. Today I use SUSE Linux for everything computer related [except for IBM, I fired them a couple of years ago because they wouldn't give up Lotu$ Note$] and I'm not moving back to Windoze---ever) Simply Change. -- Kind regards, Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net