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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.
It's just that for years Mac's have really sucked. Mac OS X is the only *good* Mac OS I've ever seen. Also for years we've been used to a *right mouse button* and it really throws us off not having one :)
what nob cheddar modded this as a troll? I'm using a fucking mac you moron....
Excuse me but I use both: WinXP at home (for games) and RedHat Enterprise 9 at work.
Currently the icons on the backgroud of my Linux station have disappeared (maybe RedHat don't like KDE?) and the menu to lock my desktop doesn't work (the command line work), I could fix it by restarting X, but this would mean logging off so for me Linux is less "stable" than XP!
While this is anecdotal evidence (I'm sure someone with a badly configured XP may have more problem than with Linux), it shows that you shouldn't be so sure that it is easy to show an 'easy benefit' for people to use Linux!
Your receptionist is black too? Mine is hot. I wish I could get the courage to ask her out.