I have to competely agree with you, buisness today want things done today, they don't want to wait a long time to have something even if that sometimes means that product isn't going to be as good. The thoery is that it is better to have something half or 3/4ths of the way done and have it on the market than have a competior have your product on the market while you are still developing your product.
I have to agree with you that there are a ton of companies that run Windows 98, even 95. Dumb, yeah but cheap for the companies. Money wins over common sense far too often. I also doubt many companies are going to switch to Linux machines, for your average empolyee at a company running Linux brings up all the issues that you hear about for Linux. A lot of low level employess really don't know much computers in general, just how to do the tasks that they have been given. Also a lot of software is custom designed even just a little bit for the companies so all of their software has to be rewritten to work on their Linux boxes.
People complain now about how much problems there are with people using old boxes, what happens when you have all the old Windows boxes and add Linux boxes with that? Pure chaos for an IT department trying to manage things from a central office without having the resources to go to each indivdual store location and train and upgrade as necessary at each location. The firms that have gone on to use Linux and use it very sucessfly are firms that have one or two office locations. They aren't firms such as FedEx that have locations all across the United States. Yes Linux doesn't need to use a command line anymore, yes it does have a very good UI, and yes you do have Virulazation software. But again to do all this conversion for an average computer user is a very scary thought and they want training and the compaines wont pay to train their users to use Linux and the associated tools to get their programs running that they run day to day, that only works on Windows.
Acutally there is a whole host of companies even Fortune 500 companies running Windows 98. Dumb, yeah but cheap for the companies. Money wins over common sense far too often.
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I have to competely agree with you, buisness today want things done today, they don't want to wait a long time to have something even if that sometimes means that product isn't going to be as good. The thoery is that it is better to have something half or 3/4ths of the way done and have it on the market than have a competior have your product on the market while you are still developing your product.
I have to agree with you that there are a ton of companies that run Windows 98, even 95. Dumb, yeah but cheap for the companies. Money wins over common sense far too often. I also doubt many companies are going to switch to Linux machines, for your average empolyee at a company running Linux brings up all the issues that you hear about for Linux. A lot of low level employess really don't know much computers in general, just how to do the tasks that they have been given. Also a lot of software is custom designed even just a little bit for the companies so all of their software has to be rewritten to work on their Linux boxes. People complain now about how much problems there are with people using old boxes, what happens when you have all the old Windows boxes and add Linux boxes with that? Pure chaos for an IT department trying to manage things from a central office without having the resources to go to each indivdual store location and train and upgrade as necessary at each location. The firms that have gone on to use Linux and use it very sucessfly are firms that have one or two office locations. They aren't firms such as FedEx that have locations all across the United States. Yes Linux doesn't need to use a command line anymore, yes it does have a very good UI, and yes you do have Virulazation software. But again to do all this conversion for an average computer user is a very scary thought and they want training and the compaines wont pay to train their users to use Linux and the associated tools to get their programs running that they run day to day, that only works on Windows.
Acutally there is a whole host of companies even Fortune 500 companies running Windows 98. Dumb, yeah but cheap for the companies. Money wins over common sense far too often.