I take your point but I disagree. My point is this. The cost of reeducating both users and the bulk of the tech support departments (most often staffed by people with 3 support options..1. CTR-ALT-DEL. 2. Hit Reset, and 3. "It'll be ok tomorrow") the cost to most small to mid companies of this reducation and porting apps from bloody MS-Acces and VB.. it's all too hard and involves far too much politics. I work with a number of AU govt departments and it is all they can do to get the powers that be to buy Netware over windows NT for there multination WAN requirements... MS is simply the easy option. even in the face of striking evidence that Netware is more reliable and more extensible than NT... I'm reminded of the old phrase "noone ever got fired for buying an IBM" .. Anyway I like Linux and for those of you who have looked at Corel Linux, it's install and config and most notably it's new X Desktop brings (KDE based) is as close to windows I've ever used. They even got Samba working almost as easily as Win95. The jury is still out on what the future holds, but I'm hanging on with both hands and enjoying the ride :) Chris On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:28:59 +0000, Paul Sims wrote:
I'd argue with that - the majority of Windows users are corporate users. They usually know how to use the tools they are given to do their job, very few are IT literate to the point of being able to change screen resolution without a call to the helpdesk. I work day-to-day in an M$ shop, it's frightening that even something as simple as changing a font is seen as a major challenge. At least it stops them meddling.......Office is popular because it forms a platform for the corporates to develop their own apps on. Again, there's a world of difference between knowing that pushing button "Connect to mainframe" gets them into the Accounts system, another entirely to know what happens when the button is pushed.
Most Windows users wouldn't notice if you put Linux on their boxes, as long as the apps worked the same.
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Look, your all missing one fundamental point. Users know windows and
they know
MS-Office, that keeps MS on top.
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<FONT FACE="Arial" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10" DEFAULT="SIZE">I take your point but I disagree. My point is this. The cost of reeducating both users and the bulk of the tech support departments (most often staffed by people with 3 support options..1. CTR-ALT-DEL. 2. Hit Reset, and 3. "It'll be ok tomorrow") the cost to most small to mid companies of this reducation and porting apps from bloody MS-Acces and VB.. it's all too hard and involves far too much politics. I work with a number of AU govt departments and it is all they can do to get the powers that be to buy Netware over windows NT for there multination WAN requirements... MS is simply the easy option. even in the face of striking evidence that Netware is more reliable and more extensible than NT... I'm reminded of the old phrase "noone ever got fired for buying an IBM" .. Anyway I like Linux and for those of you who have looked at Corel Linux, it's install and config and most notably it's new X Desktop brings (KDE based) is as close to windows I've ever used. They even got Samba working almost as easily as Win95. The jury is still out on what the future holds, but I'm hanging on with both hands and enjoying the ride :) Chris On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:28:59 +0000, Paul Sims wrote:
I'd argue with that - the majority of Windows users are corporate users. They usually know how to use the tools they are given to do their job, very few are IT literate to the point of being able to change screen resolution without a call to the helpdesk. I work day-to-day in an M$ shop, it's frightening that even something as simple as changing a font is seen as a major challenge. At least it stops them meddling.......Office is popular because it forms a platform for the corporates to develop their own apps on. Again, there's a world of difference between knowing that pushing button "Connect to mainframe" gets them into the Accounts system, another entirely to know what happens when the button is pushed.
Most Windows users wouldn't notice if you put Linux on their boxes, as long as the apps worked the same.
On Friday, March 17, 2000 3:20 PM, Chris [<FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>SMTP:Admin@Brevsville.com.au<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>] wrote:
Look, your all missing one fundamental point. Users know windows and
they know
MS-Office, that keeps MS on top.
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