On 26/01/05 03:54 PM, Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Interesting, I hadn't heard that. Perhaps more than a few in Redmond outside of their Linux group do that also. Well, I suppose, if the ship is holed and the crew are busy bailing out water, there is no need for us to waste more torpedoes on it. Regards Sid.
Most universities have Linux labs now, when I was doing my engineering degree we were basically introduced to 'A Mans Operating System" on our first day, and the same happend for science/physics students and I belive it continues. Manchester I know introduces Linux at the start of the second year for their compsci students, although of course many of them have already introduced themselves to it and in the matter of weeks have become Guru's. Of course then they come to the Lug and encounter some of the Bearded ones discussing PDP4's and the time they watched Seymor Cray use toggle switches to write an OS he'd written into a computer he'd designed... and then they dont tend to come back :-) Universities are not blind to the benefits of Linux or indeed any other OS thats gaining market share, but they want support contracts from reputable big name companies and the whole kit and caboodle with it, which ahs only recently become available within the last few years. Many universities will still be in a contract with the beast for at least the next couple of years, once those contracts lapse then you'll start to see an uptake across the board, especially as Longhorn wont ship on time. As for the NHS contract, well are you honestly surprised that they didnt decide to stop being a monetary black hole? Regards, Ben