I don't want to push the topic to far. Your vision of corporate IT not liking
open source is ridiculous i work for a corporate company and i am a huge linux fan mainly fedora but hey thats my hang up the problem i have is that in a lot of the small business situation's that i have to deal with there is no readily available system for what the customer wants yet. In saying that one of the particular hang up's is calendars that exchange supplies now recently i was introduced to a webcaendar and that is almost exactly what we need. more so what we actually need is intrgration and similar system's. Look at macintosh mac's work because they are one set of hardware ready to go straight out of the box. We live in the pc universe where anyone can sell anybody a cheap system and run away with the money i have seen many case's where customer's have gone to legimate it companies and asked them for advice and they have been sold an inferior product that is not actually capabale of doing what they want it to do
so there's one problem the varying hardware out there which linux attempts handle as best it can. then we have jobs that we want the software to do as of yet i have not been able to find an open source project that successfully ad easily does exactly what exchange can do. Windows server small business edition for all it faults and mind bending problem's for the most part does exactly what most people want it to do.
Bottom Line people dont want to waste time on theree computer's or money they want it to work and they want it to work NOW... that is why corporate IT use's microsoft products for 12 guys who screw around breaking the system you have another 100 who work fine the numbers do the talking and keep it people in a job
sorry for the rant and if i wnt off topic very sorry
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I don't want to push the topic to far. Your vision of corporate IT not liking open source is ridiculous i work for a corporate company and i am a huge linux fan mainly fedora but hey thats my hang up the problem i have is that in a lot of the small business situation's that i have to deal with there is no readily available system for what the customer wants yet. In saying that one of the particular hang up's is calendars that exchange supplies now recently i was introduced to a webcaendar and that is almost exactly what we need. more so what we actually need is intrgration and similar system's. Look at macintosh mac's work because they are one set of hardware ready to go straight out of the box. We live in the pc universe where anyone can sell anybody a cheap system and run away with the money i have seen many case's where customer's have gone to legimate it companies and asked them for advice and they have been sold an inferior product that is not actually capabale of doing what they want it to do so there's one problem the varying hardware out there which linux attempts handle as best it can. then we have jobs that we want the software to do as of yet i have not been able to find an open source project that successfully ad easily does exactly what exchange can do. Windows server small business edition for all it faults and mind bending problem's for the most part does exactly what most people want it to do. Bottom Line people dont want to waste time on theree computer's or money they want it to work and they want it to work NOW... that is why corporate IT use's microsoft products for 12 guys who screw around breaking the system you have another 100 who work fine the numbers do the talking and keep it people in a job sorry for the rant and if i wnt off topic very sorry