If only you could see where I work. When I got here there were 150 user running Windows98 and some NT 4.0 servers slowly dying a painful death. I mean MSSQL, Exchange, IIS It was a mess! I was hired to "FIX" the Company. They wanted Top Technology at the lowest cost. Since I'm a lot more familiar and comfortable with Linux, it was an option. Given the Cost, Stability, and Security, it was the logical choice for the servers. (You can't argue that logic)
All the Desktops run 98 and office 97, Holly Hell do they crash a lot. But what choice is there for a stable Corporate desktop. NT? (old, insecure, unstable, and slow), 2000? (not new, expensive, insecure, still unstable but better, still slow ),
XP? (Do I even Have to go there? "Where would you like your cartoons today", and $$$$$EXPENCIVE$$$$$$ ). Linux? (best desktop OS ever but, not enough support for business apps yet, Crystal Reports type stuff). So the best choice is to wait a year and switch to Linux when corporate America is a little more ready. In the meantime I'm getting them off the M$ centric environment. But I can argue with you because you think that if its not M$ then its bad for business. You know what's bad for business, "Spending $800 per desktop to do what my computer at home does better for free!!"
Well since I switched them off of IE we haven't had a single Porn Exploit!!! There aren't any buffer overflows running commands on our system. I think the Stupid person uses an unsecure OS (M$) and then surfs the web with their file manager. Also using Netscape now will make the switch to Linux desktops in the future go smoother, users hate change! Next move switch them to StarOffice 6 (when its done).I'm taking it one step at a time.
Yah After a year+ I left Opera and went to Netscape. But I never knew what I was missing, I had never seen a javascript drop down menu, Opera doesn't support them. But Mozilla handles bad HTML GREAT. I have seen JS that works great in mozilla, but crashes IE. The switch to gecko will cause less problems not more !!
Currently, Intel's EDI website only supports IE! not NS 4.x, NS 6, Opera, nothing but IE. I made a rule awhile ago. "Employees/users can only surf the web with Netscape." But Intel makes me look bad when the Sales Reps have to use IE to get Sales Orders from Intel. I tell everyone they can't use IE for security reasons, and they snicker, "sure, buddy Netscape don't even work!". Hopefully AOL will change all this!!!!!! And hopefully that will put me one step closer to expanding our Linux use from the servers to the desktop as well.
I was a temp for 6 months. Now I'm permanent and in charge of IT. Next Month I start Migrating the Servers to Linux. In two months Work should be pretty good. When all the business apps are available to move the desktops over to Linux, I will be truly happy. In the meantime Crossover for VB and Crystal Reports where are you?
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Why not just have it a feature of your package management system? IE. the not yet finnished, PKGtool 2.0 system
If only you could see where I work. When I got here there were 150 user running Windows98 and some NT 4.0 servers slowly dying a painful death. I mean MSSQL, Exchange, IIS It was a mess! I was hired to "FIX" the Company. They wanted Top Technology at the lowest cost. Since I'm a lot more familiar and comfortable with Linux, it was an option. Given the Cost, Stability, and Security, it was the logical choice for the servers. (You can't argue that logic) All the Desktops run 98 and office 97, Holly Hell do they crash a lot. But what choice is there for a stable Corporate desktop. NT? (old, insecure, unstable, and slow), 2000? (not new, expensive, insecure, still unstable but better, still slow ), XP? (Do I even Have to go there? "Where would you like your cartoons today", and $$$$$EXPENCIVE$$$$$$ ). Linux? (best desktop OS ever but, not enough support for business apps yet, Crystal Reports type stuff). So the best choice is to wait a year and switch to Linux when corporate America is a little more ready. In the meantime I'm getting them off the M$ centric environment. But I can argue with you because you think that if its not M$ then its bad for business. You know what's bad for business, "Spending $800 per desktop to do what my computer at home does better for free!!"
Well since I switched them off of IE we haven't had a single Porn Exploit!!! There aren't any buffer overflows running commands on our system. I think the Stupid person uses an unsecure OS (M$) and then surfs the web with their file manager. Also using Netscape now will make the switch to Linux desktops in the future go smoother, users hate change! Next move switch them to StarOffice 6 (when its done).I'm taking it one step at a time.
Yah After a year+ I left Opera and went to Netscape. But I never knew what I was missing, I had never seen a javascript drop down menu, Opera doesn't support them. But Mozilla handles bad HTML GREAT. I have seen JS that works great in mozilla, but crashes IE. The switch to gecko will cause less problems not more !!
Currently, Intel's EDI website only supports IE! not NS 4.x, NS 6, Opera, nothing but IE. I made a rule awhile ago. "Employees/users can only surf the web with Netscape." But Intel makes me look bad when the Sales Reps have to use IE to get Sales Orders from Intel. I tell everyone they can't use IE for security reasons, and they snicker, "sure, buddy Netscape don't even work!". Hopefully AOL will change all this!!!!!! And hopefully that will put me one step closer to expanding our Linux use from the servers to the desktop as well.
I was a temp for 6 months. Now I'm permanent and in charge of IT. Next Month I start Migrating the Servers to Linux. In two months Work should be pretty good. When all the business apps are available to move the desktops over to Linux, I will be truly happy. In the meantime Crossover for VB and Crystal Reports where are you?