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Using Debian in Commercial Environments?

Posted by Cliff on from the distributions-in-the-enterprise dept.

sydb asks: "I am currently persuading my employer to try out Linux. We are heavily dependent on IBM software technologies just now, and it's a very conservative operations organization. As a challenge, I am trying to persuade them to use my preferred distro but there are hurdles: IBM doesn't officially support Debian as a platform, though I have anecdotal evidence that most of it can be persuaded to work (with alien etc). Does Slashdot have experience shoe-horning Debian into this kind of scenario? Most importantly, how have things gone getting IBM support? My rationale for pushing Debian boils down to its vast array of packages available to apt-get, easy upgrades, apt-get itself, and the overall quality and consistency of the system."

3 of 506 comments (clear)

  1. Conservative and don't like Debian? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine if you tried to introduce them to Gentoo! They'd probably faint.

  2. Dear slashdot by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Despite the fact that my employer has a software environment that they are comfortable with, and that I have very little to gain and everything to lose, I have moved my software evangelism to the workplace. Can you help?

  3. I know! by blankslate · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... just skin it up like XP and don't tell them?

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    ---- death to all fanatics