PeopleSoft Jumps On The Linux Train(OT)
This IS the biggest nail in MickySoft's coffin in at least a year, and WILL mean the LOSS of a great deal of their present and future business!! Fred _______________________ PeopleSoft today said that by year's end, every one of its 170 business applications will run on the free Linux operating system. http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/2003/05/06/cx_ld_0506psft.html -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro & KMail 1.5.1 Never forget: At Microsoft, the engineering department are the Ferengi... The marketing and legal departments are the Borg!
On Tuesday 06 May 2003 08:07 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
This IS the biggest nail in MickySoft's coffin in at least a year, and WILL mean the LOSS of a great deal of their present and future business!!
Fred _______________________
PeopleSoft today said that by year's end, every one of its 170 business applications will run on the free Linux operating system.
http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/2003/05/06/cx_ld_0506psft.html
Normally I would say Hooray! except that PeopleSoft has installed a custom software package at Stanford university that was supposed to integrate all record keeping across the entire campus, and their software is utter garbage. The software package that Stanford originally had was an enormous hack assembled by successive generations of grad students and poorly documented. But it worked. Then someone got the cool idea to create a brand new package that would do all of the wondrous things that everyone wanted, write a spec, and farm it out. Now, one might suspect that there were several flaws in the process BEFORE the contract was finally handed to PeopleSoft ;-) but the end result makes PeopleSoft look pretty lame. So I guess, from a public relations standpoint, I'd rather have one look at PeopleSoft and think "Microsoft Inside", not "Linux Inside". -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"
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