10 Years of Pushing For Linux — and Giving Up

boyko.at.netqos writes "Jim Sampson at Network Performance Daily writes about his attempts over a decade to get Linux working in a business/enterprise environment, but each time, he says, something critical just didn't work, and eventually, he just gave up. The article caps with his attempts to use Ubuntu Edgy Eft — only to find a bug that still prevented him from doing work." Quoting: "For the next ten years, I would go off and on back to this thought: I wanted to support the Open Source community, and to use Linux, but every time, the reality was that Linux just was not ready... Over the last six years, I've tried periodically to get Linux working in the enterprise, thinking, logically, that things must have improved. But every time, something — sometimes something very basic — prevented me from doing what I needed to do in Linux."

Comments

Try Vista!

[Anonymous Coward]

you'll come back...

Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed

[Waffle Iron]

Developers who do things in their spare time don't like to write boring software

Especially if it's software that enables random people to schedule them into time-wasting meetings at a click of a button.

Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed

[RandomPrecision]

Not to berate the Evolution developers too much, but I've personally found almost every release of Evolution to be horribly unstable.I say this with sadness because I was once a true believer in Evolution.

Don't we all want an e-mail client that's intelligently designed?

"I was once a true believer in Evolution"

[someone1234]

So now that Evolution is debunked, what about switching to Intelligent Design? Sorry!

Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed

[Hitch]

so...it really *is* Just Like Outlook(tm)
I never thought of it that way before...always just swore at it and shut it off...
Just Like Outlook.
who knew.
be careful what you wish for, huh?

Re:You're saying basically what the original post

[cortana]

Or you could run Debian, and install the apache2, libapache2-mod-php5, libapache2-mod-perl and php5-mysql packages. And then scream because you are using PHP and MySQL.