send this to your IT manager

[rek2 at linuxbusca.com (ReK2)]

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 06:21 pm, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> At some point hitherto, ReK2 hath spake thusly:
> > Well that is your Idea... but a good IT manager(not corporate brain wash
> > yet) will know that Linux/BSD scales better than any other ms windows OS
> > in the server side. and nothing can beat in cheap... and if you also have
> > a good system administrator.. that today lot of companys lack... they
> > will save lot of money, in support and in software... conclusion more
> > budget for nice hardware.
>
> Man I wish that were true.  Unfortunately, you can't define a good IT
> manager as someone who realizes that, in many cases,
> Linux/Unix/whatever is a better bet than a given Microsoft platform.
> Many, many IT managers have been successfully brainwashed by the
> Microsoft Propoganda Wave.  That doesn't necessarily make them bad IT
> managers, on the whole.


of course not... but I wont work for one like that :-) (thanks god I don't 
need to anymore)

>
> If you had the time/resources, you'd want to bring in a test
> environment to model your planned production environment, and compare
> your available options based on price, performance, and a variety of
> other factors (not the least of which would include user acceptance).
> As much as we'd like it to be, just because something is the best
> TECHNICAL solution to a problem, doesn't always mean it's the best
> overall solution.  There are times when Microsoft does win.  Sometimes
> they win because there are no affordable alternatives to a specific
> application in the Unix world.  Sometimes its because the cost of
> training all your employees on something different is far more than
> the cost of implementing the other peices of the solution...
>

Microsoft ONLY wins were there have been microsoft infected servers...
if you are in a unix env your marketing department wont be used to those 
exchange features... so when there is a NT around a department usually I
skeep that position and look for another company. an I always have had a job 
in this last 11 years with unix only ENV.



> There are many points to consider.  Microsoft's strong point is in
> selling the customer that they are better on some/many/all of those
> points.  Whether it's true or not largely doesn't matter.  Just ask
> the BetaMax people...
>

Yes I remember that....  

> In the long run, I do think that Linux will kill (or at least maim)
> Microsoft's OS business.  But it's going to take a while, largely just
> because there's no one out there actively promoting Linux as a
> solution.  Except maybe Red Hat.  But they've got a long way to go.


I think is already have been killing  that is why all this disscusion in the 
first place.. cause a microsoft internal memo.
Linux wont be marketed... but is everywhere... even if is only like a small 
router or webserver...



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