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Linux Growth In The Workplace Slowing
BrainSurgeon writes "According to a Business Week article Linux growth numbers have slowed for the first time since SG Cowen & Co. began tracking it on their survey. The biggest reason for the slow down according is due to the hidden cost of consultants." From the article: "That doesn't mean overall Linux use is slowing. The survey only shows that a smaller number of companies not using Linux plan to try the software than in previous surveys. Most analysts expect Linux use to grow at the companies that have already rolled it out -- and do so at a healthy rate. And analysts say Linux is picking up steam outside North America, which the Cowen survey doesn't cover."
that open source software wasn't going to lock anybody in? Now it seems like a "We've spent too much to go back" kind of scenario.
to seize market share from Linux.
There's only room for one pretender, and
Bill Gates wants it to be Steve Jobs, not
Linux Torvolds.
Oh well, we tried.
NO UNBRIDLED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY!
NO BOLKESTEIN!
NO WINDOWS!
NO POWERPOINT!
NO!
(slashdot likes lower case letters, so i have to append a paragraph of nonsense to make it happy. meow, meow, i'm a cat. a very teeny tiny kitten!)
It's official, Linux is dying!
Goddamit, Tux would not be wearing a suit! Makes him look gay. I know Taco probably thinks it's cute, but to those of us who fight the battle against the ass kissing, back-slapping, glad-handing, Big Bertha swinging, BMW driving, Hamptons vactioning, outsourcing, pro-actively lay-offing idiots in suspenders on a daily basis, it's just plain offensive.
Taco, it's is the MANAGERS who would USE liunx that would be wearing the suits, not Tux!
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
...being about con and insult, two favorite things of his.
That came to mind when I read this both for the consultants part and also for the fact that my intelligence has been insulted by an attempted con at trying to make me think Linux is ready to go anywhere near business desktops.
The same people who can't manage Windows, can barely use AOL, they're going to make work efficiently an OS which is the orgasmic manna for geeks firmly of the "difficult is beautiful" mindset? Yeah, right. Maybe the server department, but I don't think any of the middle aged women in my family, who've worked XP Pro, NT4, OS/2 Warp 3, DOS 6, DOS 5, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, on their company desktops are going to be remotely interested in another paradigm shifting without a clutch.
If I had to use Gnome or KDE at work all day, I'd want to strangle someone. If it was Red Hat or Fedora underneath, I would merely choke them to unconsciousness. If it was Debian, to a coma. If it was Gentoo, straight to the grave. BSD is right out.
Little did those who suffered in the early years of Unix ever realize that their kids would one day be masochists on a level undreamt of even by the Marquis de Sade and actually find Unix cool. "Waitaminute, you said DOS sucked because of text. Now you think Linux is 'da bomb'? Are you researching bombs now with the Internet?"
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
Don't be a sLi8g
...companies do not want to hire knowledgeable *nix programmers anymore because there is a perception that they cost too much, and will entrench themselves into the company in a way that makes it difficult for them to be replaced. Companies like MS programmers, because they are cookie-cutter, a dime a dozen, and do not tend to make the PHBs as fearful of them in case they become disgruntled. History has shown that in general, *nix programmers have problems being perfectly punctual for pure punctuality's sake (i.e. they show up late for work a lot and want to work odd hours) and they also tend to buck the corporate dress codes and also tend to "cop an attitudes" towards customers, co-workers, and bosses more easily. Windows programmers, on the other hand, are much more into dressing in proper "company attire", showing up early for work plus working late without demanding comp time, always stay subservient to their management above them, are more polite to even the most idiot customers, keep themselves current with MS's "certifications" at their own expenses and will more readily "tow the company line" all the time because they know they are just another cog in a big wheel that will run just fine without them. *nix programmers have historically always had a snooty kind of superiority complex about themselves that is very much resented by both the management and the Windows programmers at companies who do both *nix and Windows development. I know... I'm one of those *nix programmers, and I've just seen my whole team get end-of-lifed and on our way out the door becasue the company has abandoned all further development for all non-windows platforms, and will abandon support for all our *nix customers as soon as they finish forcing them all to migrate to Windows-based servers. We've lost a few huge customers who refuse to migrate, but management considers the "collateral domage" and "attrition rate" to be an acceptible cost in the long term.
Why doesn't the word "Macintosh" appear on this page? Oh wait, now it does.
They probably use VB6.
I see a lot of people who don't want to learn anything beyond the skills (the MCSE answers) that got them their job, while at the same time believing they know everything about everything that matters (anything they don't know doesn't matter).
I met a sysadmin who manages hundreds of systems and swears he'll never touch any software labeled as open source because Microsoft told him it's insecure.