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Businesses Slow to Adopt Linux

Posted by michael on from the penguin-and-the-hare dept.

milenko81 and several others submitted this CNET story about corporate spending on information technology. The reporter seems to interpret it negatively because Fortune 1000 companies aren't dumping Microsoft 100% and going for Linux. But interpret it as you will.

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  1. Re:It's the price, stupid! by SPiKe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    >One last issue: MCSEs are a dime a dozen. Any >moron can administer a Windows network

    >The proportion of people that can adminster a >Linux server vs. those that can admin MS is >huge. Probably thousands to one.

    A lot of the guys that can do Windows correctly are guys that do Unix correctly.

    I've met the exceptions, but they are rare.

    A good admin is a good admin is a good admin. All one has to do is force yourself to think outside of just one particular mindset.