this isn't a very good post... i'm tired and there isn't much more to say after the most elegant text i am responding to...
over the past several months i have been using linux on several of our development servers... i have slowly been enticing our net people to take a look and they have been receptive, given all the media coverage, etc...
our net people are EXTEMELY good at what they do, and take it quite seriously... they have managaed to keep 4 NT servers, 2 Suns and 2 DEC/Alpha (w.Dec Unix) alive and well for, well, a long long time... given all the problems and situations that occur, these machines never go down unless they take them down - just wanted to setup that our net guys are quite good... they are also a bit anal, and like situations they percieve as good for business...
anyway, a few months ago i lent them one of our linux boxes to see how it performs, etc... just recently i was hearing things they had found - their impressions: it's a bit immature, but for basically a "free unix" (their words) they were very very very very impressed... the future for linux in our shop looked bright...
then NT beat linux (or whatever) - but that's not the point... in the article they were reading (off ZDNet ? im not sure) it lead to the flaming posts from the zealots... they didnt like that at all... they are professionals, and their opinion was basically, "if thats the open-source movement you've been telling us about, you can have it"...
in short, a few months of in-roads has been wasted, presumably by the "religious" side of our community... for me personally, it will be awhile before they take me seriously (not that i care), but geez, it really didnt have to be this way... i love linux, but i am not liking this "religious" or holy-war crap at all... it stinks...
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this isn't a very good post ... i'm tired and there isn't much more to say after the most elegant text i am responding to ...
... i have slowly been enticing our net people to take a look and they have been receptive, given all the media coverage, etc ...
... they have managaed to keep 4 NT servers, 2 Suns and 2 DEC/Alpha (w.Dec Unix) alive and well for, well, a long long time ... given all the problems and situations that occur, these machines never go down unless they take them down - just wanted to setup that our net guys are quite good ... they are also a bit anal, and like situations they percieve as good for business ...
... just recently i was hearing things they had found - their impressions: it's a bit immature, but for basically a "free unix" (their words) they were very very very very impressed ... the future for linux in our shop looked bright ...
... in the article they were reading (off ZDNet ? im not sure) it lead to the flaming posts from the zealots ... they didnt like that at all ... they are professionals, and their opinion was basically, "if thats the open-source movement you've been telling us about, you can have it" ...
... for me personally, it will be awhile before they take me seriously (not that i care), but geez, it really didnt have to be this way ... i love linux, but i am not liking this "religious" or holy-war crap at all ... it stinks ...
over the past several months i have been using linux on several of our development servers
our net people are EXTEMELY good at what they do, and take it quite seriously
anyway, a few months ago i lent them one of our linux boxes to see how it performs, etc
then NT beat linux (or whatever) - but that's not the point
in short, a few months of in-roads has been wasted, presumably by the "religious" side of our community