Winemaker Drinks To Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Australian winemaker De Bortoli is a firm believer in Linux. CIO Bill Robertson says he's 'bemused by any notion that Linux is poorly supported in the enterprise since he has never had any trouble finding support for De Bortoli's open-source systems', and says that those IT managers having trouble simply 'aren't looking hard enough.' There are also some other good case studies here -- telecommuncations provider TransACT, online hotel booking service Wotif, engineering contractor Coates and investment and funds management group Aviva."

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After all, it is based on Unix, which was designed for ease of use

Exactly which Unix are you using there?

Unix is the antithesis of Usable. Just because something is capable of doing a LOT for you ( read has lots of features and abilities), doesn't mean it's Usable/easy to use. This is the big difference between Command Line Interfaces and Gui ones.

A cml may have lots of features but they can be difficult to use and if undocumented inmpossible to use. A Gui, usually, makes doing a specific action easy, but makes it hard to provide a lot of features.