Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] What we are dealing with.
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 11:50:06AM -0500, zentara wrote:
Patrick T. Berry wrote:
true what has been said, that Windoze users are so used to "Reboot" that it is merely an inconvenience to them, and the strangeness of a "new" operating system keeps them at bay. It is hard to reshape bad habits in humans. Any suggestions for a perfect box for Linux would be appreciated!
You want a perfect Linux box for unix newbies? Perfect the Windows95 X-windows manager, and get SUN to upgrade WABI to run 32-bit windows executables; or better yet, get WINE perfected.
Then the Linux computer will look, feel, and run like they expect. Then they can slowly migrate over to the faster native linux applications.
The "selling point" would be getting $500 dollar NT Server "functionality"; at a lower cost.
I think Apache, inetd, perl, and built-in C compiler is worth it, and as more people get hooked onto T1 and fiberoptic lines, they will all want to be there own ISP.
Of course, Microsoft would probably retaliate by dropping the price for NT Server, then make the money back by expensive "service contracts" to fix their bugs. :-)
I don't think the money is an issue for most people? What I have seen is that most Companies can get NT with all the bells and whisles for much less than micro$oft leads us to believe. A 25 client license with everything is under 1000 dollars; to buy all of the software in peices would cost 5000 dollars or more. Plus most Consultants once they spend the money to get micro$oft certified seem to think that they now have to use MS products to get there moneys worth. I would like to get MS certified so that I would be able to offer the best solution to the problem. The consultants here in Louisville seem to think that there is only one solution to the problem and that is micro$oft. I assume that these are people who come from Novell backrounds because I refuse to believe that someone with Unix experience would think that there is only one solution. These people are also making the firewall the same machine that does the file serving and web hosting for these companies. The only thing protecting them is animosity and the sheer numbers of people now connecting to the internet. -- Andrew L. Davis Network Operations adavis@vprlnk.net ViperLink International -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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