You could add to your list of reasons why people don't convert -- money. Too many people have too much money tied up in MS stock. Mark On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, adhak wrote: | Hi everybody | | Thankx all for sharing your thoughts and experience in this regard. | Actually, many places think seriously to switch to Linux OS. The only | problem is that their staff are not trained to deal with this OS. | The solution they are looking for is to either: | 1. Push their staff to train themselves by themselves. | 2. A more elegant way is to be certified (although as mentioned by | somebody this does not mean too much). | | I believe that Linux can be better used in Academia and Companies since it | provides a cheap UNIX-like system. | | There are also people who are against Linux and do not even want to | considere it. Why?? | | Well, in my personal view, they are afraid to go to something they do not | know and loose their status of experts in Windows for example. | Think of somebody being a Windows or Unix network administrator since many | years. How he is going to look at himself when dealing with this new OS | for him. | He will simply try to ignore it and pretend that it is not stable yet. | | As an anecdote: | Somebody asked me to install Linux 6.3 on his PC. I did not have time at | that very moment so he asked sombody else to help him in the installation | process. That person installed RedHat 6.2. When I asked him why did you go | to RedHat instead of SuSE. He simply replied that "RedHat is more stable". | I fact he is not even familiar with the basic of the LINUX OS. | | This is just to give you an idea about how judgments are made on the-fly. | | Regards | | | -- | To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com | For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com | Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ | | -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq