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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.
Makes perfect sense. Who has a good word to say about large telcos or beleives their employees have any clue? So too, who has a good word to say about Mac users or beleive Mac users have any clue? Couldn't be a better fit.
Good thing Linux is really secure, and doesnt have nearly any exploits available.
Note the sarcasm in the title.
God help them if they ever find a bug and try to get it fixed by their vendor.
Sad, but true.
The Mozilla is still the number one source of laughter and disbelief, especially when one of my employees suggests to use it sitewide. I mean, Internet Explorer is the standard for all web protocols, so why change it? I credit the efforts of the former Netscape employees who really try to use their time of unemployment to create something useful, but they just keep on missing the needs of their target audience. Perhaps Netscape could provide them with their newest code instead of letting them just reuse their obsolete Netscape 4.x code. Who knows.
This leaves us waiting for Windows Longhorn.
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.