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Linux Feels Growing Pains
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "As Linux enters the mainstream, adopters 'are demanding many features found on commercial software, including a large variety of add-on application programs and management tools that are easy to use,' the Wall Street Journal reports. 'How quickly open-source programs can narrow the gap with commercial software is a hotly debated topic in the computer industry. The transition may determine whether the technology will continue its momentum, or stall in the face of tougher competition at the heart of corporate computer networks.' Eric Singleton, chief information officer at retailer Tommy Hilfiger Corp., which recently switched its e-commerce site 'Tommy.com' from Linux to Microsoft software, calls Linux 'a great product,' but adds, 'it's got to get the final tier of reliability and predictability that I'm going to bet a multi-billion dollar corporation's future on.'"
Heh, interesting catch-22 thinking. By interesting I mean "silly".
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
That was exactly what I was thinking about while reading the post. I didn't RTFA, but still, I wonder how many of those "unsuccessfull" projects with Linux comes from not getting a good Unix/Linux admin to set things up, unlike Windows NT that anyone can configure (unsecured and unstable, most likely).
... but not for Hillfiger ?
Eric Singleton, you should change your name to Eric Simpleton
What a pathetically stupid comment to make from someone who evidentally doesn't have a damn clue what he's talking about.
Someone fire this jerk and get a chief information officer who doesn't have his head stuck in his butt.
http://www.google.co.za/search?q=amazon+linux
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
"Oh wait, you mean they are just demanding and doing nothing? Who cares what they demand then?"
"Free as in beer, but only if you work on it."
Ass.
"Derp de derp."
Your wrong, our IIS 6 servers are exposed to the internet 24X7 with no unplanned down time, that's reliability.... Plus IIS 6 has fewer vulnerabilities than Apache 2.0. I guess all those people who loathe MS products are stumped on that one!
I think the only people who really loathe MS products are a small group of computer experts who still don't understand computers need to be user friendly instead of expert friendly.
Bye the way your post sucks and has nothing to do with reliability...