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Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD

Posted by Zonk on from the geek-squad-can't-help dept.

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."

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  1. well.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    mmhmm

    time is $ asshat

  2. Indeed it is free by carguy84 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So long as your time has absolutely no value to you.

  3. Re:PWC has a interesting attitude by Shotgun · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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?

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  4. Captain Obvious pays PWC a visit. by toadlife · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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  5. Re:Have you ever used OpenBSD? by CyricZ · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.

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  6. Re:Learn to use windows. by amightywind · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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  7. Re:Don't know about that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, until some fanboy fucktard (which describes about 98% of Slashbots) messes with samba.conf file and causes Samba to think that it should be serving up WINS on my network. It took me all fucking day to find the goddamn Cobalt Qube sitting on some low level network admin's desk....

    I got his dumb ass fired for it though. Now his kids will starve, which means that they won't get to contribute to the fanboy fucktard gene pool. Hey, I guess it did work out after all....

  8. Re:BSD gave me AIDS by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

    LK

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