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How One Small Business Switched to Ubuntu

Posted by kdawson on from the losing-business-the-old-fashioned-way dept.

firenurse writes to point out a story in The Inquirer about how one small business switched to Ubuntu. It describes a maddening comedy of errors, a series of circular screw-ups among Microsoft, HP, and a RAID vendor. From the article: "You never quite wrap your head around how anti-consumer Microsoft's policies are until they bite you in the bum. Add in the customer antagonistic policies of its patsies, HP in this case, and vendors like Promise, and you have quite a recipe for pain. Guess what I did today?"

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  1. *kisses karma goodbye* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that a secret code that gets you modded up on Slashdot?

  2. Re:Similar Thing Happened to Me by StikyPad · · Score: 2, Funny

    If by stupidity, you mean "Using the default for the Ubuntu distribution," then yes.. it was stupidity.

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  3. Re:Comedy of Ubuntu errors by darkonc · · Score: 2, Funny
    Okay, box is bricked. Luckily I have a computer from work and I go ask for help on forums.
    ....
    "Burn a Live CD." Don't have a burner. "You burned the install CD, how can you not burn a Live?" 'Cause I'm posting from a different computer, moron. First one's bricked, remember?
    Hmm, so nobody at work is willing to burn you a live CD? You must be as much of an assh*le at work as you are on the net.
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  4. Re:Comedy of Ubuntu errors by ajs318 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's been my experience that people such as you described tend to end up in management.

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