The problem is, it's not just consultants. I work for a manufacturing company, and our CIO has bought into this mentality that a monolithic architecture is going to make our IT infrastructure perfect and unbreakable. Of course, every MS product we roll out has issues and she gets to skirt by because we havn't fully implemented all of the surrounding MS technology to take full advantage of what we have.
The business requirements are no longer a concern to her. When the business asks for problem to be solved by IT, she either brings in a new MS product or tells them they have to use some crappy piece of MS software we already purchased (SharePoint I'm looking at you).
I think Ubuntu is a fine OS. I know there are other distros that are great and if you like them you should use them. However, Ubuntu provides two things a decent user experience with a great community for both novices and power users and more importantly momentum for "non traditional" Operating Systems. Any exposure people get to alternative platforms is a good thing. It's really nice to show people that there is alternatives to the crazy M$ way of things.
I don't have the tiniest bit of knowledge about how to run a car on compressed natural gas. Saying that I should makes about as much sense as telling a senior citizen to use Slackware.
There needs to be a commercial solution for it to be viable to the masses.
If there was a sensible commuter car like this I would snap it up in a heartbeat.
Then I could go fight the good fight with my electric company on why they aren't providing me with cheaper/greener power. The best part is, if they refuse I can invest in solar panels or a wind turbine and make my own.
I need to start out by saying that I am a web developer and other than very basic work deploying code to HPUX boxes at work I have had 0 exposure and no formal training with *nix Operating systems.
I started playing around with Ubuntu during the Feisty release on my windows desktop with Wubi. Once I saw that I could get all my work done reliably and how stable Ubuntu was I knew that It would be my main operating system... someday. When I purchased a laptop with Vista preloaded on it I realized that Ubuntu was going to have to come to the rescue sooner than I was planning. Right about the time gutsy came out I put in on my no frills middle of the road laptop and haven't looked back. I had my fair share of issues and there was a learning curve for the administrative stuff but the. For day to day uses Its a rock and couldn't be more intuitive. My girlfriend who is not tech savy thought it was the neatest thing and demanded that I put it on her aging 6 year old laptop that came with Windows ME but had been limping along on Windows XP with a slim 128 megs of ram. Xubuntu loaded even easier on the old lappy and everything worked out of the box including a pcmcia wifi card. It brought new life to a machine that had been used mostly as a coaster for the past couple years. Then came the big upgrade to Hungry Hippo I mean Hardy Heron there were some hiccups but I reminded myself that windows has a similar trouble shooting learning curve that I had 10+ years vested in. The fact that I was able to upgrade to a new version of the OS with such few issues and trouble shoot the ones I had in a couple hours is really a testament to how Robust and friendly Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community has already become. Not only is Ubuntu becoming easier to use but with another few years of experience under my belt I'm sure that fixing the rare problems will be a snap.
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The problem is, it's not just consultants. I work for a manufacturing company, and our CIO has bought into this mentality that a monolithic architecture is going to make our IT infrastructure perfect and unbreakable. Of course, every MS product we roll out has issues and she gets to skirt by because we havn't fully implemented all of the surrounding MS technology to take full advantage of what we have.
The business requirements are no longer a concern to her. When the business asks for problem to be solved by IT, she either brings in a new MS product or tells them they have to use some crappy piece of MS software we already purchased (SharePoint I'm looking at you).
It really is disgusting.
I think Ubuntu is a fine OS. I know there are other distros that are great and if you like them you should use them. However, Ubuntu provides two things a decent user experience with a great community for both novices and power users and more importantly momentum for "non traditional" Operating Systems. Any exposure people get to alternative platforms is a good thing. It's really nice to show people that there is alternatives to the crazy M$ way of things.
This should be on the list of things younger than John McCain. www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com
I don't have the tiniest bit of knowledge about how to run a car on compressed natural gas. Saying that I should makes about as much sense as telling a senior citizen to use Slackware.
There needs to be a commercial solution for it to be viable to the masses.
If there was a sensible commuter car like this I would snap it up in a heartbeat.
Then I could go fight the good fight with my electric company on why they aren't providing me with cheaper/greener power. The best part is, if they refuse I can invest in solar panels or a wind turbine and make my own.
I knew that was coming the second I hit submit :-)
I need to start out by saying that I am a web developer and other than very basic work deploying code to HPUX boxes at work I have had 0 exposure and no formal training with *nix Operating systems. I started playing around with Ubuntu during the Feisty release on my windows desktop with Wubi. Once I saw that I could get all my work done reliably and how stable Ubuntu was I knew that It would be my main operating system... someday. When I purchased a laptop with Vista preloaded on it I realized that Ubuntu was going to have to come to the rescue sooner than I was planning. Right about the time gutsy came out I put in on my no frills middle of the road laptop and haven't looked back. I had my fair share of issues and there was a learning curve for the administrative stuff but the. For day to day uses Its a rock and couldn't be more intuitive. My girlfriend who is not tech savy thought it was the neatest thing and demanded that I put it on her aging 6 year old laptop that came with Windows ME but had been limping along on Windows XP with a slim 128 megs of ram. Xubuntu loaded even easier on the old lappy and everything worked out of the box including a pcmcia wifi card. It brought new life to a machine that had been used mostly as a coaster for the past couple years. Then came the big upgrade to Hungry Hippo I mean Hardy Heron there were some hiccups but I reminded myself that windows has a similar trouble shooting learning curve that I had 10+ years vested in. The fact that I was able to upgrade to a new version of the OS with such few issues and trouble shoot the ones I had in a couple hours is really a testament to how Robust and friendly Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community has already become. Not only is Ubuntu becoming easier to use but with another few years of experience under my belt I'm sure that fixing the rare problems will be a snap.