On Thursday 02 November 2006 21:10, M Harris wrote:
On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:32, Anders Johansson wrote:
believing that people LIKE windoze... DONT THEY GET IT!!! .... the reason we run Linux is because we HATE windoze....
That may be the reason why you run linux, but it's hardly a reason for major corporations, and this announcement is aimed squarely at major corporations
A CTO would be fired on the spot if he played by emotions
Who are you trying to kid?
Corporations hate windoze. Ask any of the corporations which have been skewered by M$, or ask any of the corporations (or non emotional individuals) involved in M$ anti-trust class action lawsuits (like the one in Minnesota for example) or ask any of the millions of corporate managers across America who are hamstrung by the M$ "corporate parasite" that crashes and burns (literally) millions of hours of person-productive time. Oh, they hate windoze assuredly. But they say it differently... "We find it difficult to concur with the latest financial strategy of M$ to leverage their aggressive position in the IT market while providing marginal value-add for our user base". --- translation... we hate windoze.
I second that. The PC maintenance people at work HATE Windows. (They only have about 500 PCs to manage at my site, but there are probably 10,000 computers on the entire corporate network at different sites.) In spite of the obscene amounts of money spent on firewalls and virus protection everywhere we've still been hit at least once a year by some Windows exploit. I heard some back room whispering and I understand they've been evaluating SLED and like it. They just have to figure out how to get more clueless managers to agree Windows is the root of the productivity problems.