If I didn't have mouths to feed, I could really tell you a story. I asked our IT department to test Linux a year ago (I didn't ask them to use, only really look at it). They refused. Like I said the head of the department thought it was SHAREWARE. Well I tested it. Of coure it passed. It even was used where there was no NT solution. It even recovred after three hardware failures. To make a long story short: They still refuse to use Linux. They won't use any solutions that can't be used on NT. They fired the one guy in their IT department that agreed with me. The one good thing that happened is that Red Hat has my report and they are using it to get a lot of new corporate customers, just not mine!
If he really got the letter, he would have been told to contact a certain person at E-Trade. You don't have to fill out any forms. Just e-mail him your E*Trade account number.
Take it easy everyone. He's a newbe and really want's to try it out. When Time runs articles on Linux, you know we're getting mainstream. And as it gets more mainstream, there's gonna be more stories like this. BTW, I believe I fixed his problem with the Thinkpad. I work for the same company.
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If I didn't have mouths to feed, I could really tell you a story. I asked our IT department to test Linux a year ago (I didn't ask them to use, only really look at it). They refused. Like I said the head of the department thought it was SHAREWARE.
Well I tested it. Of coure it passed. It even was used where there was no NT solution. It even recovred after three hardware failures.
To make a long story short: They still refuse to use Linux. They won't use any solutions that can't be used on NT. They fired the one guy in their IT department that agreed with me.
The one good thing that happened is that Red Hat has my report and they are using it to get a lot of new corporate customers, just not mine!
The head of our IT department thought OSS was SHAREWARE. And I work for a fortune 100 company!
If he really got the letter, he would have been told to contact a certain person at E-Trade. You don't have to fill out any forms. Just e-mail him your E*Trade account number.
Take it easy everyone. He's a newbe and really want's to try it out. When Time runs articles on Linux, you know we're getting mainstream. And as it gets more mainstream, there's gonna be more stories like this.
BTW, I believe I fixed his problem with the Thinkpad. I work for the same company.