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FAA May Ditch Vista For Linux
An anonymous reader writes "Another straw in the wind: following last week's news that the US Department of Transportation is putting a halt on upgrades to Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 7, today comes word that the Federal Aviation Administration may ditch Vista and Office in favor of Google's new online business applications running on Linux-based hardware. (The FAA is part of the DOT.) The FAA's CIO David Bowen told InformationWeek he's taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency's Windows XP-based desktop computers. Bowen cited several reasons why he finds Google Apps attractive. 'From a security and management standpoint that would have some advantages,' he said."
Its not just me. There are over 550,000 businesses that support Microsoft Products and 0 that support GOogle (unless your bought out and incorporated into the Google Borg.
See unlike google, microsoft created this channel program called "VAR" where i can resell services, support, maintenance, hardware and software and dedicate myself to making it work for my clients.
Sure, i can sell a google service and turn into a support person or end up working for google to stay in the IT sector.
All i'm saying is i find it almost ironic that there is this infallable support for Google yet no one questions their motives.
Maybe google will allow me to resell there services, sell bolt-ons that can be certified and re-write the world to work around there products and be all fine and dandy - but is that ultimately any better from where we are today where there is still choices no matter what you use but those choices are more expensive, inferior and less integrated than what google will ultimately have even putting a dead end on open source alternatives because "what will be the point" if "all mighty google does it all?"
just asking since no one else does.