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AT&T Considers Mac OS X, Linux For 70,000 Desktops
hype7 writes "CNet's News.com.com is reporting that AT&T is reconsidering its corporate IT investment in Microsoft Windows - with both Mac OS X and Linux being considered. Although the article notes that AT&T is not actively seeking to replace Windows, there's a wonderful quote on the page from the AT&T guy - 'Any CIO would not be doing due diligence if they are not looking at their options now.'" As with previous mass-migration stories, a cynical (or realistic) viewpoint is also that by "looking into" non-Windows operating systems, they're giving themselves a bargaining chip when talking with Microsoft. Update: 10/06 17:35 GMT by T : Actually, that's 70,000 desktops, rather than 7,000 as originally stated.
Not richer...they pay less money remember? Sure, this is only one contract but more companies will do the same thing and M$ lose a lot of their income.
:)
This is what competition is about...Sort of
Can your karma go above being Excellent?
[0]: There seems to be a "hierarchy of Dumb" when it comes to email attachments. The Dumb Rules of Thumb:
.DOC, it's more Dumb.
.XLS, it's probably even more useless and Dumb.
.PPT, chances are it's insanely Dumb.
If the information comes in the body of an email, chances are it's least Dumb.
If it's HTML encoded into the email, it's usually a bit more Dumb.
If it comes as a word
If it comes as a
If it comes as a
Next time you're at the office going through your email, think about it. The most insanely stupid stuff you get is probably powerpoint slides (and chances are, could have been done just as well in plain-text email and gotten the point across...) and the few useful pieces of email you get are probably unhindered by any sort of encoding...
-JDF
I guess those gigabit ethernet ports are just for show, huh?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
arse. how the hell am seeing this then? am i dreaming? is that you mum........
like tits on a bull
You do realize that if you left off the ';' at the beginning of your sections, that the readers wouldn't suddenly begin executing your statements, don't you...?
Clarify (used by our organization for bug tracking)
CCM (source code control system)
Concur (Web-based, but IE only, expense system tied to AmEx)
Our corporate web pages (they even have a check for non-IE browsers which redirect to a "page not found" error)
That's why I run Mac OS X and have a copy of Virtual PC.
I nearly fell off my chair.
... and onto their legs or something, hopefully breaking them and forcing them into rehab for a couple of weeks so you can get done the thing that they had sworn up and down could not be done.
The next time you encounter one of these fucking morons -- who give us real techies a reeeeally bad name -- please DO fall off your chair
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]
Can you imagine using a PC with a one-button mouse? I don't think so.
I can use my PC without any mouse at all.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!