** Reply to message from Togan Muftuoglu on Thu, 30 May 2002 20:26:17 +0300
**n a business environment I would not want the employee to fight
**with the software to get out the job. Software is a tool. Business is
**where productivity is vital and time is money, from managers,owners
**shareholders POV just to hack the software so it will build properly
**and produce the desired outcome is killing time.
I think you are both correct and incorrect in this assessment.. In that
the business will need , for expediency if nothing else, to hire at
least one linux "god" ( IT specialists ;to we commonfolk <G> )
That one person , or several if the company is big enough can make the
programs the company needs do the required job; so those who do the
"work" of the business can get on w/ the comany's businness..
Even figuring the sallery of one or two Linux IT guys the cost will
be less the very first year than if they stay w/ their present OS ...
And the cost goes down incrementally as they stay w/ it, and the
desktop workers get used to the linux "way" .. Much of desktop level (
end user) usage is habitiual. Just listen to the complaints when there
is any change in the manner of doing things in *any* program or OS.. (
anyone who has had to train/teach users a 'new" version of anything
will get hours of grief from the "students" not because it's
necesserily difficult to do things a new way, but because they now must
think and pay attention instead of operating on "auto pilot" as many
(most?) do usually.
Large corporations usually do not use "off the shelf" software for
their day to day production. Nearlly everything is somehow tweaked, or
edged, or made to operate much more smoothly than what we get "out of
the box" They also pay a pretty penny for that "customisation" ...
It appears that there is going to be some commercial software availble
for Linux, sooner rather than later. So having all the biggies perhaps
make sure everyone in the group puts foo in blah makes a lot of
sense... and perhaps even more spectacular things will appear than Word
Processors .. better than average mail prgrams ... Programs we can't
even imagine at present.
j
afterthought A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose.