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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. Wrong tools for the job by dave562 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    In reference to the article, the guy was trying to take an HP consumer desktop and turn it into a file server. What the hell did he expect? He was doing it with Windows XP as the host OS too? What a jackhole. Then he whined about the whole experience?

    If he wanted a whitebox file server then he should have built it himself. Bagging on HP is kind of stupid given that you can easily install a few different flavors of Linux on a Proliant with full driver support.

    In short, the guy wasn't using the right tools for the job and he got bit in the butt by it. If he had planned ahead instead of just assuming that everything would work right then he could have avoided the problems that he ran into.

    Granted, Ubuntu worked for him better than the Windows options that he had so chalk it up as a "win" for Ubuntu.