Re: CIO study finds Linux ready for prime-time (addition)

Andrew V. Fionik wrote:
Hello, Paul!

PNT>> I would beg to differ. I work for a company with 360,000 employees
PNT>> (was 60,000 big merger), and we have twice as many non Windows
PNT>> servers as Windows servers (including big iron).

And one more thing. Almost everywhere at that companies when i needed something from Linux related crowd completion of request takes unfairly a lot of time than similar work on the Windows. The reason for it not known to me, however i have noticed the tendency to constant recurrence of similar situations.

The last example was request to install and setup CVS server on the Linux. Admin told me it should take entrie day, and at the end of second day i received incorrectly configured CVS server. How this may happen? Completely not familiar with CVS server i'm tried to do it myself on the Windows. It has required two hours of time, including downloading of the cvsnt and reading of a manual. I do not try to be objective. I simply tell the impressions.

That's called (wrongly imho) "job protection" : if something looks complex, then techies believe they're safer. And whether it's Linux, Windows, etc... it is the wrong attitude.

Didier



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