Look at this way: Finally, Linux is making some headway, and people are complaining. Please look at the big picture. Today, Dell is using the Novell/MS Linux. Tomorrow, another large scale manufacturer will use Ubuntu...maybe HP? Believe it or not, competition makes the world spin, and it's about time the open source community realizes it. As Mick Jagger said, "You can't always get what you want...sometimes you just might find you get what you need."
Macs can be used on a corporate network. Someone in your IT department needs to force themselves to use a Mac for a month. After a month, I'd bet on the fact that you won't go back to MS. Mail and Exchange integration: No problem, Address Book: Easy through OWA, Office: purchase MS Office for Mac or download NeoOffice, ERP applications: install Parallels running XP and connect to your terminal server.
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Look at this way: Finally, Linux is making some headway, and people are complaining. Please look at the big picture. Today, Dell is using the Novell/MS Linux. Tomorrow, another large scale manufacturer will use Ubuntu...maybe HP? Believe it or not, competition makes the world spin, and it's about time the open source community realizes it. As Mick Jagger said, "You can't always get what you want...sometimes you just might find you get what you need."
Macs can be used on a corporate network. Someone in your IT department needs to force themselves to use a Mac for a month. After a month, I'd bet on the fact that you won't go back to MS. Mail and Exchange integration: No problem, Address Book: Easy through OWA, Office: purchase MS Office for Mac or download NeoOffice, ERP applications: install Parallels running XP and connect to your terminal server.