Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD

Barry Lyndon writes "Computerworld reports that the nightmare of windows is driving PriceWaterhouseCoopers, one of the world's largest accountancy and business consulting companies, to OpenBSD and open source in general." From the article: "'My predecessor spent too much [so] I was told not to spend any money.' When asked what argument he used to convince management to use an open source solution, Uemura said: 'They didn't have an argument because they said don't spend any money.' 'They trusted me,' he said. 'The whole office was relying on one domain controller which was dying.' Uemura said a lot of work was done 'behind the scenes'. 'My experience is that if something has to be done, just do it - don't ask! They will thank you later,' he said."

Comments

Re:PWC has a interesting attitude

[Shotgun]

ferreting out things that don't quite work the same way as in a Windows environment

You mean things like proprietary EMAIL protocols? Or maybe you were referring to the Windows propensity to go belly-up under virus attack? I'm not sure what your innuendo is reffering to exactly, so could you please expand on the FUD?

Captain Obvious pays PWC a visit.

[toadlife]

They replaced a bunch of firewalls running on Windows with a firewall running on OpenBSD. So? It sounds like Captain Obvious finally paid them a visit. Windows works great a ton of things, but being a network device is not one of them.

Re:Have you ever used OpenBSD?

[CyricZ]

Much of the Linux documentation applies just as well to the BSDs.

But don't forget that the users in this case are IT professionals. They should know UNIX, and they should know Linux. If they don't, then they shouldn't be in the IT business. So for such people, adapting to OpenBSD shouldn't be a problem at all.

Re:Learn to use windows.

[amightywind]

This has *nothing* to do with Windows being teh suq. Rather, this has everything to do with the previous admin not knowing what he was doing.

What else would a mindless Windoze fanboy say? It must be the stupid admin. It is drones like you we can blame for the lousy state of enterprise computing.

Re:BSD gave me AIDS

[Lord Kano]

Sure, it was FreeBSD and not your anonymous man-on-man ass-sex in the bathroom at your local park.

LK