-----Original Message----- From: Ruben I Safir [mailto:ruben@mrbrklyn.com] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:35 AM To: linux@kode-fu.net Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Why does it always have to be a massive ordeal?
And I'm just saying your OBVIOUSLY just wrong.
The question is Windows ready for the desktop.
Clearly NOT. And the Tech support numbers support this.
The last time I looked at personal insurance (some years ago...), the entire insurance industry was using actuarial numbers compiled in the 1950s to set their policies for insuring -- or refusing to insure -- activities like parachuting. Improvements in equipment, technique and training over the intervening decades had drastically improved the death/injury rates, but the companies were not looking for newer data. They had some that satisfied them. Is there any chance that you are including older numbers to justify your claims? My employer's IT folk say that Win NT and Win2K and the various servers have been fairly stable for some time, and that the bulk of their work is for: - ISP problems - hardware - special-purpose programs used by some departments, that are NOT part of the common Windows-user repertoire - figuring out how to implement stable, working Linux-on-the-desktop. Note that they want to switch to Linux, not because Windows doesn't work, but because of the licensing and other onerous policies of Uncle Bill. If you or I had asked them the same questions five years ago, they would probably have said that Windows' failings were taking the bulk of their time. But that's no longer true. Certainly, there are still, occasionally, some ugly and inconvenient failures, but not nearly as many as in earlier times. YMMV /kevin