Alternative To Windows Desktops

Eric_Z writes "Ace's Hardware has got a article called "The Mad Hatter meets the MSCE" by Paul Murphy, about the TCO benefits of using UNIX(Lintel) instead of Wintel. According to the piece: 'The subject of this article looks at alternatives to the Windows desktop, which is a hot topic these days with IBM/SuSe scoring a highly public win in Munich with desktop Linux, and Sun aiming to build on StarOffice being the leading alternative to Microsoft Office with a software stack code-named Mad Hatter which Sun also plans to use extensively in-house. But companies depending on Microsoft Certified Engineers to adapt to Linux will carry over a number of problems, significantly increasing the chance of project failure. Paul considers the alternatives, the migration problems, and in seeking a more reliable alternative takes the opportunity to look at the business desktop from an entirely different angle, and propose a more radical solution.'"

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You have no more a right...

[cnelzie]

...to call yourself an Engineer then the local homeless crazy bum has of calling himself 'The Emperor of All Known Space'.

You are a glorified Technician. You took a test that people that go through a 6-day Boot Camp can pass. You are really a Microsoft Certified Systems TECHNICIAN. Nothing more, nothing less.

Of course, if you spent 4 to 6 years at an institution of higher learning going over nothing but Microsoft Products and the Engineering principles of those products, as well as how to implement, change and build those products and then spent 5 years in the field prior to taking a professional organization's Engineering test... Then you could call yourself an Engineer.

Real Engineers work themselves to the bone and sweat blood to be called Engineers. At best, you are a qualified and skilled Network Technician. Nothing more and nothing less.